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important help that you gave me some years ago. I shall 

 look forward very much to a visit from you presently; 

 besides the pleasure, it would help me, to have a good talk. 

 I am intending to make an alteration about my yearly 

 reports. It seems to me that it would be the best course "to 

 bring the present series to a close with this number, giving 

 with it a collective index of the whole series up to date. I 

 should like the twenty-two years' work to stand complete, 

 and not be liable to detraction, gradually, as to regret about 

 Miss Ormerod not being this, that, and the other, which 

 with advancing years is likely. I think, too, that I need a 

 little consultation as to some slight alteration of plan. I do 

 not like so much repetition as I see elsewhere. I have 

 difficulty in avoiding it, and I am trying that my present 

 Twenty-second Annual Report should be as fresh as I can 

 make it. Kind regards from, yours sincerely, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



