COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 
FOR 
KANSAS CITY. 
Jan.27,1911. 
My dear Mr.Brewster, 
I hesitate to do any more than acknowledge the enclosed 
letter,for I feel that I may be biassed in the matter,but its contents 
seem to show that the Directors have doubts as to the integrity of Mr. 
Baynes,and to question whether he gave the services he charged for.I 
therefore write to you to recall to the circumstances at the time when I 
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asked Mr. Baynes to come down and put in the two days^referred to. 
Mr.Baynes had returned from a highly successful trip|and 
had given the people to understand that the Society would back them up 
in the work of keeping up the enthusiasm he had aroused. The Secretary,, 
however, either from the nature of the case or from dilatoriness,or from 
both causes,was not sending the materials which the local secretaries,old 
and new, were asking for. A further step in the campaign which had been be¬ 
gun was to be taken in the shape of the letter referred to by Miss Kimball. 
I was too busy to give any more time and I knew that Miss Kimball could not. 
I called a meeting at Mrs. Bolles* house which you attended and laid the 
situation before you.The opinion of the meeting seemed ^ 1 ^ to be pretty 
general that Miss Kimball was not equal to the situation. I therefore 
asked Mr.Baynes to come down and see that the letter was printed and sent 
out.This he did.You,I have since heard,did not like the tone of the letter, 
but it certainly was calculated to inspire a feeling of confidence that the 
writer would cooperate energetically with the people to whom it was addressdl 
Just what else Mr. Baynes did in those two days I am not now in a position 
to say,but I feel confident that anyone who recalls the enthusiasm for the 
future success of the society which breathed in the report of his trip, or 
who talked with him during that those two days,would feel it an insult to 
