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students. But both in her diaries and in Mr. Gilman’s 
Notes enough is said to make it clear that she immediately 
became an effective member of the Committee, conferring 
at once with Mr. Gilman, making visits upon friends in 
Boston who might become interested in the scheme, and 
writing letters in its behalf. On May 30, 1881, for example, 
Mr. Gilman writes: “Mrs. Agassiz was appointed a com- 
mittee to see Mr. Eliot to learn if any arrangement can be 
made for the young ladies to use books in the Library and 
more particularly the feeling about our future”; and con- 
sidering her later success in many similar delicate missions, 
it is not surprising to learn that she reported a “satisfac- 
tory interview.” Unfortunately the series of Mrs. Agas- 
siz’s journals is interrupted from February 14, 1880, to 
January 1, 1892, and for these intervening years, highly 
important for the collegiate instruction of women in Cam- 
bridge, we have scarcely a word from her outside of her 
published addresses and reports. 
The following letter written in 1882 shows Mrs. Agas- 
siz’s excellent practical judgment in matters affecting the 
policy of the Annex, and her steady adherence to the origi- 
nal plan of the committee of providing Harvard instruction 
for women, not of establishing a new college for women. 
TO MR. ARTHUR GILMAN 
Cambridge, March 24, 1882 
My pear Mr. Gitman: Will you kindly allow me 
to see you again before you take further steps about 
raising money? Of course, if we are to live, we must 
have the material means of living. But with reference 
to the final form which our scheme is to take I think 
