1872-02-15_Letter-A_Whipple-to-Alvord

[left side:] Run [Go?] Whipple Feb 15, 72

[right side:] American Missionary Association: Rooms, 59 Reade Street, New York. REV. E. N. KIRK, D. D., President, Boston, Mass. REV. GEO WHIPPLE, } REV. M. E. STRIEVY. } Sec's., 59 Reade St., N. Y.

E. KETCHUM, ESQ., Treasurer } W. E. WHITING, Asst. Treas. } 59 Reade St., N. Y. REV. E. M. CRAVATH, Field Sec., }

New York, Feb 15 1872.

Rev. J. W. Alvord Pres. J. S. & J. [Co.?] Washington, D. C. My dear Brother.

Your favor of the 10^th was [duty?] [sec?], For which please accept my thanks.

You say, "Gen. Howards election "was revoked, as a bad record of Trustee "action, (illegal proably) tho' he subse"quently paid his loan: but the board did "not like to have it seen that they had "ever voted upon a candidate while in one "of the funds." And you inquire:

"Was, or was not, this the best thing we could do?"

Pardon me, if I return the question with a restatement of the facts.

Under there has been a falsifying of the records, which I do not [bekine?], they now show.

1^st that at the January mutiny, Gen.

Howard, while a debtor to the Bank was elected a Trustee.

2. At the Feb. meeting, when he had paid his indebtedness, his section was revoked.

Was, or was not, this the best thing we (trustees) could do?

I remain very truly yours [Gen.?] Whipple.