Springside     June 29..  1866.
M.B. Anderson L.L.D.
My dear friend,
I rise from a sick couch to read and answer
your kind note of the 25..   current and after doing so I regret that I
pressed your attendence at our last College Trustee meeting so urgently  .
as to call for so explanatory & satisfactory answer as I well knew the
lively interest you take in our educational enterprise, and nothing but
almost impossibilities would hinder your accustomed punctuality, which
I can truthfully say has not been my case as trustee in your Institution.
-----But to return to the subject of our meeting - it was not merely your
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valuable officials we needed, but y. social agreeable company-----Miss
Germand felt the loss also as you were the only guest we had expected
to entertain at our "Springside" domicil during the meeting-----Miss G.
had prepared here good things she knew you liked, viz. Broiled chickens -
Broiled ham, green peas, String beans collaflower &c for the first course
hot-house grapes & peaches, strawberrys &c for the second course rinsed
down with a little old Gooseberry, and a comfortable couch to rest your
weary limbs at night.    I do not state these things to aggravate y. disappoint-
ment, but rather ours.
But to return to the subject of your letter, I was sorry to hear of
the death of Doct Culling Father - please to remember me to him in his
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afflictions*         I cannot this morning give you further sketch of our
last meeting.   Will send you it in a few days - see N*Y. Times of the
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Miss Germand joins in her best regard to you and yours.   Ever
& truly
Y    Friend             M. Vassar
P.S.     Miss G. insist that I shoud tell you my troubles on the day of
Trustee Meeting,     Well, after the business of the Board was finish.,
and the Evening exercises began in the Chapel I was taken with another
slight attack of parralisis oblliging medical attendance and was bro
home at nSpringsidetf am now doing well-              Yr?       M.V.
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