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country are indebted for the useful and beautiful annual 

 of Arbor Day. 



The late Senator Hitchcock, who was a graduate of this 

 college and a pupil of mine, did me the honor to listen 

 attentively to that address, and in connection with the 

 Mortons showed me many polite attentions besides, as did 

 also Mr. Howard Kennedy and his excellent wife, at 

 whose house I was hospitably lodged. 



Since then I have been repeatedly at Nebraska City, 

 and have found in Mr. Morton, in his own home at 

 Arbor Lodge, not only an esteemed and established friend, 

 but also a man in whose political intelligence and deep- 

 seated fidelity to the rights of the masses of the people I 

 feel the utmost confidence. He owes much in character 

 and courtesy and keenness to his venerable mother, still 

 living; and I cannot conclude this note, written at the 

 suggestion of one of his neighbors, without expressing 

 the friendly hope that his sons, some of whom are at 

 present in positions of great responsibility, may follow in 

 the moral footsteps of a worthy and lovable father. 



ARTHUR LATHAM PERRY. 



FROM WIRT DEXTER. 



CHICAGO, April 9, 1888. 



DEAR SIR I thank you for calling my attention to 

 your proposed Arbor Day edition of the Press. When I 



