468 Hope Street, 
Providence, 
Hoc. 6, 1310. 
Mrs. Annie .Morrill Kith, 
78 Orange Street, 
Brooklyn, II.Y. 
My dear tiro. Smith:- 
I wish I could tell you that I would under¬ 
take the duties of :ditor-in-chief, for there is nothing that 
I should like better, but I really have absolutely no tine that 
I could devote to it at present, and there seems little prospect 
of my having any for some time to come. 
I hesitated quite a little before replying to Mr. Chamber¬ 
lain's letter, trying to think of some solution of the matter 
by which I could feel justified in accepting, but the proposition 
seems insoluble, greatly to my regret. 
I have already written Chamberlain in detail, and, as I 
judge from his letter he will see you before long, I hope you 
will pardon the brevity of this epistle. There is quite a 
stack of laboratory papers at my elbow that must be read and 
corrected before tomorrow morning, 
I am very sorry that your arm still bothers you. I had 
supposed that you had entirely recovered from the effects of 
your fall long ago. You must have injured it much more badly 
than I was lead to suppose at the time 1 first heard of your 
accident. 
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