334 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
your kind note, and though the verses did not adapt 
themselves to the music or the music did not fit itself 
to them, I shall never cease to feel that they made 
a part of the beautiful and affectionate commemo- 
ration of my eightieth anniversary. 
I have so much to thank you for, but I should find 
a difficulty in putting it into words. But what I can- 
not say I hope you will understand and will see that 
I have‘deeply felt the sympathy expressed in your 
verses both for my earlier and my later life. 
With grateful remembrance, 
Sincerely yours, 
EvizaBeta C. Aaassiz 
TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 
Dearest Mrs. Aacassiz: I am honored by your 
letter of thanks (which I did little to deserve) signed 
in your own dear, clear hand. You can hardly im- 
agine unless you put yourself in our place, the im- 
petus of enthusiasm with which we followed up the 
plan of giving you a birthday pleasure, whoever 
first put it in motion. The programme of your con- 
cert moved me a good deal; it seemed to speak of 
by-gone years, and your music with your sisters, 
and of the beneficent reign of Dresel... . 
There is but one regret for me, which is in the 
thought that future generations of Radcliffe girls 
cannot have that example of “the gracious and 
sympathetic side of life,’ the dignity and refinement 
which its first students have been so fortunate 
