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your kind note, and though the verses did not adapt 

 themselves to the music or the music did not fit itself 

 to them, I shall never cease to feel that they made 

 a part of the beautiful and affectionate commemo- 

 ration of my eightieth anniversary. 



I have so much to thank you for, but I should find 

 a difficulty in putting it into words. But what I can- 

 not say I hope you will understand and will see that 

 I have deeply felt the sympathy expressed in your 

 verses both for my earlier and my later life. 



With grateful remembrance, 



Sincerely yours, 



ELIZABETH C. AGASSIZ 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



DEAREST MRS. AGASSIZ: I am honored by your 

 letter of thanks (which I did little to deserve) signed 

 in your own dear, clear hand. You can hardly im- 

 agine unless you put yourself in our place, the im- 

 petus of enthusiasm with which we followed up the 

 plan of giving you a birthday pleasure, whoever 

 first put it in motion. The programme of your con- 

 cert moved me a good deal; it seemed to speak of 

 by-gone years, and your music with your sisters, 

 and of the beneficent reign of Dresel. . . . 



There is but one regret for me, which is in the 

 thought that future generations of Radcliffe girls 

 cannot have that example of "the gracious and 

 sympathetic side of life," the dignity and refinement 

 which its first students have been so fortunate 



