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WILSON, WOODROW
Princeton, New Jearsy
19 September 1899

Mrs. May Wright Sewall,
Indianapolis, Indiana,

My dear Madam,

Your letter of the fifteenth instant, received yesterday, in-
viting me to be one of the winter's speakers before the Contemporary
Club of Indianapolis has given me very great gratification; and I
sincerely wish that it were possible for me to accept.

On account of my university duties, which are crowed into the
early part of each week, it is impracticable for me to accept in-
vitations to places at a considerable distance for any evening ear-
lier than Thursday. Moreover, there is another difficulty, which
I shall take the liberty of stating to you very frankly. I have
of late found my time so taken up with speaking engagements away
from home, to the great detriment of my literary work, that for a
year of two I have felt obliged to insist upong a 'protective tariff',
which shall in most cases prohibitory. I have put it at one hun-
dred dollars and expenses; and the embarrassment is this, that , while

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