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Rockefeller’s pledge, on the splendid achievement of the Citizens 
Committee. 
Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) Tuomas B. ApPLEGET. 
Mr. G. Foster Smith, Treasurer, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Citizens Committee, 
The Nassau National Bank of Brooklyn, 
Brooklyn, New York. 
Aly 23, 1926, 
My dear Mr. Appleget: 
I beg to acknowledge your letter of the 12th enclosing Mr. 
Rockefeller, Jr.’s check in the sum of $250,000 payable to the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
I also appreciate the kind expressions contained in your letter 
and wish to again thank you on behalf of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden for the very generous contribution which Mr. Rockefeller 
has made to us. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) G. Foster SMITH, 
Treasurer, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Citizens Committee 
Mr. Thomas B. Appleget, 
26 Broadway, 
New York. 
The Director and Staff of the Botanic Garden wish to express 
here to Mr. Rockefeller, to all individuals and organizations that 
subscribed to this fund, and to the Citizens Endowment Fund 
Committee, sincere appreciation of their generous contributions 
and labors, and in particular of the confidence in our work, of 
which these contributions and efforts are such substantial evidence. 
This response of our citizens, making it possible for the Botanic 
Garden to supplement more generously the annual appropriations 
in the Tax Budget of the City, is a forceful illustration of what 
the Hon. Elihu Root has recently referred to as “ the true Ameri- 
can way, the true way in every self-governing people, to accom- 
plish results which are desired, and which are not already pro- 
