62 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Naiiant, Mass. 



February 16, 1898. 

 H. M. Brooks, Secretary, 

 The Essex Institute. 



Dkar Sir: — 



The Executive and Librarian of the Nahant Public 

 Library regret previous engagements for the afternoon of March 2, 

 18!)8. Possibly the Executive may be able to get in to the speaking at 

 2. 30 but "would have to take the 3.30 train (Boston at 3.30) East. 

 Thanking you, we are 



Respectfully, 



The Nahant Public Library. 

 Fked A. Wilson, 



Executive. 



Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 



Feb. 17, 1898. 

 Dear Mr. Brooks : — 



I have delayed answering the kind invitation to the Essex 

 Institute celebration on the 2nd of March, hoping that I might be 

 able to arrange matters here so that I could attend. It now seems 

 unlikely that I can get away from Cambridge on that date, but if I 

 can I shall go. Anyhow I send my best wishes. 



Yours faithfully, 



Geohge Lincoln Goodale. 



Salem Normal School, 



Salem, Massachusetts. 

 Mr. Walter P. Beckwith accepts with great pleasure the invitation 

 of the Essex Institute to the semi-centennial exercises at Academy 

 Hall and Plummer Hall on the afternoon of March 2<S.prox. 

 February the seventeenth 1898. 



Harvard College Observatory, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 

 Mr. Edward C. Pickering regrets very much that he will be unable 

 to be present at the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute, on 

 account of official duties. Mr. Pickering sends his cordial congratu- 

 lations. 



February 18. 



