Geo. T. Fairchild,
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W.T.Swingle,
Washington,D.C., Dear friend:
I am very thankful for your suggestion in regard to the chair in botany, and will follow the clue at once. We have quite#a number of applicants for the place, but all are men of limited experience both as teachers and as experimenters. I realize the difficulty of obtaining men who have already won a place elsewhere, from the fact that we have neither large salary nor special
advantages to tempt them. Please let me know anything further you
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may learn concerning Mr.Webber.
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I hear through David that you are enjoying your work very much, and think you have found just the place for such growth. We often speak of you and your opportunities, and want you to feel just as
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much interest in us as ever, and always feel free to make suggestion
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for the common Welfare. If you were four years older we should
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want to tempt you back if we knew how, although with the feeling that you are probably better off where you are.
Yours truly,
