Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July ZQ1}1 1864.
William Warner Esq.
Dear Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your valued
letter of the 18th Inst: and appreciate highly the interest with which
you embrace the enterprize that have occupied my whole mind &
attention for many years.
With reference to the opening of the College for reception of
pupils I may briefly remark that the Trustees have decided not to
open it until September 1865, but Circulars will be issued in the
course of this month giving all the necessary informations and I shall
avail myself of the pleasure to send you a Copy as soon as issued.
You will then perceive there is ample time for your daughters
to prepare to enter the College as well as for yourself to make such
arrangement that may prove most advantageous to your interest.     I
have as yet not received the Report & pamphlet referred to in your
letter but hope soon to be put in possession of them and shall not omit
to give my particular attention to the same in as much as they have a
peculiar bearing on the future Organization of the College.       I send you
by to days mail the first Proceedings of the Board of Trustees in 1861
and a report from the Art Committee of the College which are all the
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documents that officially have been issued by the Trustees since the
Commencement of the Building and any subsequent pamphlet & report
that during the coming winter will be put in Circulation, I shall cause
to be remitted to your address.
Begging you to accept this brief answer to your different ques-
tions    I remain
Respectfully
M. Vassar
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