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she entered on the arm of her son, the audience rose in 

 a body as a mark of respect for her. In speaking of the 

 event afterwards she said that she felt rather nervous 

 on entering the hall, but when she saw everbody getting 

 up to do honor to Alex, it put her completely at her 

 ease ! 



TO MRS. G. R. AGASSIZ 



Cambridge, Dec. 17, 1902. 



We were all glad to hear that you were safely settled 

 in your new quarters, and we imagine you sitting out 

 while we are wading through the snow, a regular old- 

 fashioned snowstorm which has badly complicated the 

 coal question and made the delivery of the little coal 

 there is all the more difficult. I am just beginning to 

 get ready for Saturday's sailing per Ivernia. It will be 

 quite a new experience for Max and me to sail from 

 Boston in a Cunarder and in a slow boat. But there 

 was nothing better till after New Year except a French 

 liner and I have distinct prejudices against them. 



Last night I read the proof of the last page of the 

 index of my Report on the Pacific Coral Reefs, so I shall 

 have everything in good shape to be published as soon 

 as practicable in my absence. 



Mother will have written you about the concert at her 

 birthday ; it was a great success, the finest thing being 

 A. Ag. sitting through the whole because he could not 

 get out ! and surviving the ordeal. The public raised 

 $65,000 for the building, to be called after mother, so 

 that with the $50,000 of the family they can put up 

 somethingf creditable, but will have little to run it with. 

 The elite of the beau monde came to the house after the 

 concert and stayed well on towards midnight. Mother 



