322 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Shady Hill, Cambridge, November 10, 1899 

 MY DEAR MRS. AGASSIZ: I am sorry that the en- 

 closed paper has not reached you sooner. ... I mean 

 to have a better copy for you, but I will not wait 

 to have it made before sending to you this report of 

 the action taken by the Associates of Radcliffe on 

 your resignation. 



I hope that you will approve their proposal and 

 grant their wish. I fully sympathize with you in 

 the feeling which must accompany so grave a step 

 as the laying down of a duty which has filled so 

 large a part of life, and thus sympathizing I also 

 feel very strongly that this proposal of the Associates 

 may be a mode of softening the change for you, 

 and the continuance in sentiment for them of a 

 most happy relation. 



I venture to say for myself that my strongest 

 tie to Radcliffe is that which you make. ... I leave 

 a thousand things unsaid. 



Affectionately yours, 



C. E. NORTON 



The enclosed paper to which Mr. Norton refers was a 

 copy of the following minute unanimously adopted at a 

 meeting of the Associates of Radcliffe College held on 

 November 1, 1899: 



The Associates of Radcliffe College have received 

 with the deepest regret the letter of Mrs. Agassiz by 

 which she resigns the office of President of the College. 



