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with Miss Jenkins. I remember you told me last spring that President Angell was such a good friend of yourself and of your charming Detroit Club friends whom I had the good fortune to meet, you had little doubt that you could persuade him to a parallel course at Ann Arbor, while I should be at Detroit.  

I am not inclined to believe that Miss Jenkins' failure with Ann Arbor, is necessarily decisive in the negative. In such matters personal influence goes for much. On my side, I can assure to my audiences a unique treat.

Miss Jenkins seems to think that, since I am now in close communication with Detroit, than through the round about route in New York, I had better take these arrangements of Detroit and Cleveland and other possible dates into my own hand, and settle them by correspondence with you. I think so too; and if it is not asking too much of you, I should wish that between Dec. 5th and 22nd. You would decide as many dates for me as possible, be it in Detroit, Monroe or otherwise, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, or other neighboring cities. Of course I do not wish you to give much of your time for this, but, feeling so sure of your personal interest in the cause, I know that you must have, without