that you will not feel for a moment that you must provide 
for me, and especially I would stipulate that whatever is 
done, other worthy people should not suffer on account of my 
ambitions. That my thoughts frequently turn homeward and the 
picture of settled conditions, congenial associations fully 
in sympathy with scientific work comes before me cannot be 
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denied. The field here is a great one and promises much for 
the future, but I fear that years of crudeness, struggle and 
uncertainty must follow, notwithstanding the fact that we 
have in ene des an management some of the best and most appre- 
ciative men I have ever known. 
| Sincerely yours, 
WILLIAM H. HOLMES 
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