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Cincinnati, March 17th, 1848............

I.A. Lapham,

My dear Sir,--

Yours of Dec. 11th was duly received.*** Your valuable article on the brick was received and I have written an editorial from information obtained from your matter, calling the attention of our citizens to a clay in this vicinity making similar brick, a copy will be sent to you when printed.

I suppose you have seen the several articles on Milwaukee and Wisconsin that appeared in the Gazette as editorials.***

Truly yours,

A. Randall.

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From the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, Mar. 28, 1848.

"At a meeting of citizens held at the Council room on Saturday evening after full discussion it was deemed expedient to establish a college in this city and the following persons were appointed an Executive Committee with full power to act in the premises.

Paraclete Potter,
Wm Pitt Lynde,
Increase A. Lapham,
E.B. Wolcott,
F. Randall.

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Milwaukee March 29th, 1848.............

Dear Brother,--

Some days ago I sent you by Mr. Chas. H. Williams a package containing about eighty species of grass with their common and botanical names, being duplicates selected from my herbarium, agreeably