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Dear Senator Stanford: during the space of seven years I have been in this country, I have all the while been and still am struggling single-handed in the course of philological learning. I am the first man, who ever ventured to form a class of Sanskrit students in the City of Chicago. During the coming winter this Sanskrit Class consists of four American Public School Professors; and a little later I shall add a few more private pupils in the same department. If you should have no actual opening in your University for a Sanskrit - Teach, in such event I submit to your attention, that there still remain all the languages and literatures of Northen Europe, Italian and Italian literature. I speak and write the Italian tongue like any native Italian; and there further remains the Philolosophy of Languages, in which I have constant sought to attain to an exceptional standard of proficiencu, and there finally might be mentioned "General History, Literature and Ethnology" This may seem a long enumeration