268 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
for Mrs. Agassiz and for the college, a correspondence that 
took place in the autumn, as a sequel to the closer relation 
between Harvard and Radcliffe, remains to be mentioned. 
This correspondence has already been printed in the First 
Annual Report of the President of Radcliffe College and 
also in a published address by Charles Francis Adams, 
made at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society 
held on February 14, 1895, in memory of Judge Ebenezer 
Hoar of Concord, Massachusetts. It is repeated here, since 
at the time it attracted a good deal of attention, and since 
Mrs. Agassiz’s part in it is characteristically graceful. 
TO MISTRESS LOUIS AGASSIZ 
President of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Quincy, September 12, 1894 
Honorep AND Gracious Lapy: This epistle is ad- 
dressed to you from Quincy, because in the part of 
Braintree which now bears that name, in the burial 
place by the meeting house, all that was mortal of me 
was laid to rest more than two centuries ago, and the 
gravestone stands which bears my name, and marks 
the spot where my dust reposes. 
It may cause you surprise to be thus addressed, 
and that the work which you are pursuing with such 
constancy and success is of interest to one who so 
long ago passed from the mortal sight of men. But 
you may recall that wise philosophers have believed 
and taught that those who have striven to do their 
Lord’s will here below do not, when transferred to his 
house on high, thereby become wholly regardless of 
