RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 321 
think and believe that the change in my actual 
relation to the college, and as I hope, dear Agnes, 
to you, will not be so great as you think. If it suits 
you, I want to keep my teas just as before (adapting 
the period of their duration to your judgment). 
This will I trust keep up my friendly relation with 
the students and lead perhaps to other intercourse 
with them. 
Cambridge, October 19, 1899 
Dear Acnes: Thank you with all my heart for 
your note, — that we have grown to be such friends 
is indeed a happiness to me, and I only hope we may 
still work together as dear friends may without other 
tie. It grieves me more than I can say to think of 
causing pain to the colleagues with whom I have 
worked so long in the most harmonious companion- 
ship, — and yet I am sure that I am right in taking 
this step before it is forced upon me. It does not 
seem so great a change to me as to my co-workers 
perhaps, because I have so strong a hope that I may 
still keep my personal relation to Radcliffe, still 
be in touch with all its interests and with the stu- 
dents — and more than all with you, dear Partner. 
Your affectionate old friend, 
EvizaBetu C. Acassiz 
I have written a letter to President Eliot — It 
seemed fitting to apprise him myself of the change. 
