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I was getting ready to start home two weeks ago, when a very flattering letter came
from the University of Michigan, asking me to be present there on June 16th to
receive a Doctor's degree. I saw it would cut my time schedule all up, so I rushed
about among friends to ask advice about declining it.
I am through my work for the present,
and want to start home,
It seems much wiser to wait here and stop at Ann Arbor on the way home, arriving in
Red Cloud on the 19th of June. This will make my visit with you run late into July.
As you know I can't stand the heat very well. If it is very hot, I suppose I'll have
to cut and run. I will have to come back to New York the last week of July, and pack
for
It's this confounded degree that spoils my summer. If I could have got home by the
20th of May, as I was all ready to do, everything would be simple, and I would not
have to stay on in
If you have any suggestions to offer, Elsie, if either mother or