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The man responsible for the rumors was requested 

 to resign and that severed his connection with the Fund 

 forever. 



Dr. Goldman hastened to assure my husband that 

 his honesty had never been doubted for an instant by 

 him, but that there had been in existence a persistent 

 undercurrent of complaint that the books were not 

 being properly kept, and he wished to silence it at 

 once and for all. A letter of my husband's, written to 

 Dr. Goldman at that time reads as follows: 



"I shall be glad to get rid of all accounts, book- 

 keeping, etc. It wearies me more than any of the work 

 outdoors. When the work in the fields starts, and 

 everything goes smoothly, as I hope it will, you'll not 

 recognize me. Good spirits and hope for the success 

 of our undertaking will do me far more good than 

 any amount of car-ing for my physical health ever will." 

 (Dr. Goldman had expressed his anxiety about the 

 state of my husband's health.) 



Of the good friends made among his colleagues 

 while on the staff of the Fort Collins Agricultural 

 College, he had corresponded regularly with one who, 

 by 1892, had become Director of the Lincoln Agri- 

 cultural College in Nebraska. Prof. Ingersoll had 

 heard of the great hardships my husband had been 

 enduring in furthering to his utmost the welfare of 

 the new colony, and he wrote to summon him to 

 Nebraska to work at Lincoln. Here is the letter my 

 husband wrote to Prof. Ingersoll in answer to the 

 invitation: 



