74 BULLETIN OF TIIK ESSEX INSTITUTE:. 



Public Library, 



RocKPORT, Mass., Fkb'y 28, 1898. 



Hknuy M. Brooks, Esq., Skcretary. 



My dear Sir : — 



I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, your polite in- 

 vitation for the librarian and myself to be present at the celebration 

 of your fiftieth anniversary on March 2cl, and regret to say that neither 

 of us will be able to be present. 



Trusting you may have the abundant success that your Institute so 

 much deserves, I am 



Very truly youi's, 



J. LoRiNG WooDFALL, Pres't Trustees. 



Boston and Maine Railroad, 

 President's Office, 



Boston, February 28, 1898. 

 Mr. Henry M. Brooks, 



Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 



Dear Sir : — 



I thank you for your invitation to be present at the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Institute, on the 

 2d prox., but regret that an important engagement will keep me in 

 Boston that day and will prevent me from being present. 



Yours truly, 



Lucius Tuttle, 



President. 



New England Magazine. 



Boston, Mass , 

 Hon. Robert S. Rantoul, Pkes't. &c. Feb. 28, 1898. 



Dear Sir : — 



I am sincerely sorry that the pressure of many duties 

 will prevent my being present at your interesting meeting on Wednes- 

 day. It would give me great pleasure to be present at your celebra- 

 tion. The Essex Institute has done a unique and splendid service in 

 historical scholarship and study in Massachusetts, and we are all your 



debtors. 



Yours truly, 



Edwin D. Mead. 



