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Tiik Phillips Exetek Academy, 



Exeter, N. II., Feb. 24, 1898. 

 Henry M. Brooks, Secretary, 

 Salkm, Mass. 

 Dear Sir : — 



Your kind invitation for the exercises in commemora- 

 tion of the Essex Institute is just received. I thank you for this 

 attention. If my duties will alloAv me to leave Exeter on March second, 

 I shall be very glad to be present at the exercises. 

 Thanking you for the attention shown me, I am 



Yours very truly, 



Harlan P. Amen, 



Principal. 



Dear Mr. Rantoul: — 



I shall be glad to use the ticket so kindly sent for the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of the Essex Institute. 



My connection with the Institute antedates its incorporation, as I 

 presented to the Legislature, during my first year in the House of 

 Representatives, as a member from Salem, the petition of -which the 

 incorporation was the sequel. 



I hope everything will go off well, and am 



Yours faithfully, 



Willaro P. Phillips. 

 Feb. 24, 1898. 



President's Room, 



Brown University, 



Providence, Feb. 24, 1898. 

 My dear Sir : — 



I feel highly complimented by the receipt of this 



ticket; but, as I am so situated that I cannot use it, beg to return it. 



Sincerely, 



E. Benj. Andrews. 



Francis A. Osuorn presents his thanks to the Essex Institute for 

 the courtesy of its invitation to attend the fiftieth anniversary of its 

 founding on March 2 next, and regrets that imperative business en- 

 gagements on that day deprive him of the pleasure of accepting it. 

 Boston, Feb. 25, 1898. 



