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Farmers" College
Mar Cin. Ohio, Dec. 4/54

Dear Sir;

Yours of the 20 [nth?] came duly to hand. But
importantly without the resolutions referred to therein.
I would be exceedingly gratified to meet your People & their
Representatives as proposed in your letter; and have not
concluded to say that I cannot attend. But
inasmuch as our College Session for the Winter Term
commences on the 3d of [hole in paper] I must be detained here
for some 2 weeks thereafter for the purpose of perfecting
the organization of the Session. But, if it should
be deemed that I could be of any essential service to
your most worthy enterprise, by being in Springfield
at any time, say after the 20 of January, I think
I could so adjust affairs as to join you in such