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mentioned in your catalogue, and perhaps there are half a dozen others in Detroit of the same mind; I am sorry to say that Mr. Griffiths and I felt that the total number would be exceedingly small. We base this upon the long experience Mr. Griffith has had with these matters, and what myself and a few others, with whom I have spoken about the matter, believe to be true.

I am very sorry that you are disappointed at Ann Arbor and Chicago, and, while I believe that matters in both of these places have unfortunately gone wrong, it will, I fear, be very difficult to locate the exact reason. Mr. Griffiths says that while in Boston recently, he overheard disagreeable things mentioned, and I fancy the same thing may have had its very unjust and harmful result in Ann Arbor and Chicago. Still, on the other hand, I am inclined to think that the amount of real interest in America on topics so interesting to a few of us is generally speaking wofully small; and for all this I am very sorry.

Mr. Griffiths, in writing you this afternoon, will give you the best possible choice of dates in Detroit, and I hope that ones entirely satisfactory to your convenience will be chosen.

I am sorry that I cannot render you personal assistance at Ann Arbor. In your letter, you speak of my having spoken 

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