Thursday Morning
November 21st,  1867.
My dear Miss Powell
I intended to had seen you after the Gymnastic
Exercises last evening to express the pleasure and satisfaction the
exercises afforded me & my accompaning friends, and were much
impressed with the improvement the Young Ladies had made since my
first visit, and had my health admitted intended to have expressed
this deserving tribute of praise to them ere I left the hall, failing in
that opportunity be pleased dear Miss P-----to tender to the young
Ladies my humble salutation &c
Yours very truly &c
Matthew Vassar
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