322 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ ° 
TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 
Shady Hill, Cambridge, November 10, 1899 
My pear Mrs. Agassiz: I am sorry that the en- 
closed paper has not reached you sooner. ... I mean 
to have a better copy for you, but I will not wait 
to have it made before sending to you this report of 
the action taken by the Associates of Radcliffe on 
your resignation. 
I hope that you will approve their proposal and 
grant their wish. I fully sympathize with you in 
the feeling which must accompany so grave a step 
as the laying down of a duty which has filled so 
large a part of life, and thus sympathizing I also 
feel very strongly that this proposal of the Associates 
may be a mode of softening the change for you, 
and the continuance in sentiment for them of a 
most happy relation. 
I venture to say for myself that my strongest 
tie to Radcliffe is that which you make. ...I leave 
a thousand things unsaid. 
Affectionately yours, 
C. E. Norton 
The enclosed paper to which Mr. Norton refers was a 
copy of the following minute unanimously adopted at a 
meeting of the Associates of Radcliffe College held on 
November 1, 1899: 
The Associates of Radcliffe College have received 
with the deepest regret the letter of Mrs. Agassiz by 
which she resigns the office of President of the College. 
