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as to enjoy. But I trust that when years (many 
happy ones, I hope) have robbed the college of that 
perfect type, the tradition may abide as a perpetual 
stimulus. Do me the favor, dear lady, not to notice 
this missive, as I know that you are buried in similar 
ones. It is but a weak expression of the affection and 
admiration which you have had for a half century 
from me and mine. 
Yours faithfully, 
Sarau B. WIsTER 
TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 
95 Irving Street, December 5, 1902. 
Dear Mrs. Agassiz: With our whole heart we wish 
you a happy birthday, and a long series more of 
them to follow. For forty years I have known 
you, dear Mrs. Agassiz, always the same, spreading 
benedictions around you by your sympathy, in- 
telligence, cheerfulness, and activity; and I hate to 
think that such a presence should ever leave the 
scene. I am sixty; — let me breathe a prayer that 
we may both live twenty years longer, in plenary 
possession of our faculties and expire on the same 
day! 
With tenderest affection, your old friend, 
Wn. JAMES 
95 Irving Street, December 15, 1902 
Dear Mrs. Acassiz: I never dreamed of your re- 
plying to that note of mine [of Dec. 5]. If you are 
