350 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 



cliffe College has got on fast, and is now in an excel- 

 lent position. In fact, I do not see how it can be im- 

 proved, so far as its organization and instruction go. 

 You ought to take solid satisfaction in your work 

 for it. 



Sincerely yours, 



Charles Eliot 



TO MISS EMMA F. CARY AND MISS LOUISA FELTON 



Nahant [June 26, 19031 

 I HAVE longed to write to you both, but time has been 

 at high pressure for the last week, and notes and letters 

 have been at a discount. One thing I will say, — that 

 this my last Commencement [June 23] (which has 

 kept me awake and frightened me out of my wits 

 for the last three weeks) proved to be one of the 

 happiest experiences of my long connection with the 

 dear Radcliffe, which I now leave where I have so 

 longed to see her, in closest touch with the intellec- 

 tual outfit of Harvard, sharing her government, her 

 instruction, her traditions and associations. 



President Eliot was admirable — full of sympathy, 

 eminently satisfied and pleased w^th our choice of 

 a new president from the Faculty, which of course 

 sets the seal upon our relation to Harvard. Mr. Ropes 

 [Professor James H. Ropes], who was our oflSciating 

 clergyman and who read the annual address, touched 

 upon a point to which no one has ever before alluded, 

 though it has often been in my own mind. He spoke 

 of the College (Radcliffe) as a natural growth out of 



