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nizing, as it were, which meant a good deal. With 

 that our evening ended. 



TO MRS. WILLIAM B. RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT OF THE 

 RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 



Nahant, June 30, 1903 



MY DEAR MRS. RICHARDSON: You must let me tell 

 you how much I enjoyed the evening with our Alum- 

 nae, and how charmingly I thought the whole occasion 

 was presided over by you. It was a lovely close to my 

 social relations with that pleasant company of stu- 

 dents which have made year by year so great a part 

 of the interest and charm of my life. I do not speak 

 of the "close" as if it meant the end of that companion- 

 ship, for I trust that I shall meet our students often 

 and often in close and cordial association. I only 

 mean that the bright and pleasant meeting of the 

 Alumnae ended the day for me delightfully. 

 With affectionate remembrance, 



ELIZABETH C. AGASSIZ 



On June 24 Mrs. Agassiz had written in her diary: 

 "The day I had so much dreaded is over and was one of 

 the happiest I have known in my connection with Rad- 

 cliffe. And now my presidency is over, and Dean Briggs is 

 installed, and I feel that the position of Radcliffe is assured." 

 "Now that I am losing courage in these later days," she 

 wrote at this time to a friend, "it is a joy to feel that there 

 are younger people to take up the cares and responsibili- 

 ties and bear them along with fresh hope and faith," and 

 the following letters still further illustrate her attitude 



