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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
WAS NGTON. 
= : March 23rd, 1897. 
W. H. Holmes, Esq., 
5726 Washington Ave. 
Chicago. 
My dear Holmes. 
I have your letter of March 20th. On Sunday last I 
dined with Mr. Langley at Mr. Adams's. I had not seen him before 
for a long time. He is looking better than I expected to see him. 
I asked how affairs were getting on at the Museum. He said he 
thought they would be all right if he could succeed in retaining 
Wolcott. I told him I had heard there was a possibility of your 
coming here to which he assented and ssid he thought you would 
come. I remarked that this would be very advantageous to him and — 
to the Museum, if things could be so arranged that there would 
not be any collision. He replied there was no occasion for con- 
flict. To this I replied that the only person you were apt not to 
agree with was Wilson; that it was almost impossible for any one 
to get along with him. He answered that Wilson was a good kind 
of an old person and that you had such tact and management that 
you would have no difficulty with him. I thought he said this 
with a manner as if he did not think very much of W. or care very 
much for him. I observed that you would be giving up a great deal 
by coming here, salary and otherwise. He replied that as to salary 
he thought things could be fixed so that your salary here would 
approximate that received by you where you are now. I am delight- 
ed at the prospect of your being with us again. I should add that 
Mr. Adams told Langley that it would be a great thing for him to 
secure you and he,ihtimated that your talents were rather wasted 
in Chicago. /\ ; 
Yours very truly, 
YW HOU. 
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