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tinent as such, being so distinctly insisted upon, 

 I presume I may express this wish even in a 

 latitude as high as that of Princeton. 



I trust that you will kindly account for my 

 readiness in formulating this desire by my con- 

 fessing that in the last few weeks I have con- 

 tracted the somewhat awkward habit of believino- 



o 



that the expression of a v/ish is in this country 

 the surest and shortest way towards the rapid 

 realization of it. 



