Poughkeepsie, N.Y., March 31st,  1864.
My dear Mrs. Hale:
Your valued letter with enclosure proofs of an article on
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Vassar Female College & its organization for the next N      of your
Ladys Book is received and I would thankfully return my best acknow-
ledgment for them.   Nothing special has transpired in our College
matters since my last.   By the same mail with your letter I received one
from your friend Mrs. Cuddehy in answer to mine of a previous date, in
which she thanks me for the proposition made to her but says "My posi-
tion as Principal of the School of Design is so consonant to my taste,
and I may say without vanity has been so successful that only a decided
increase of Salary would tempt me to leave it &c.ff
I shall thus let the subject of her engagement rest till the meet-
ing of the Trustees in June.
Youask me to allow Dr.  Jewett to see the ,!proofsn which I will
do the earliest opportunity, but Dr. J. has not shown me the "Copy" of
your Sons letter, the fact is he and myself do not entirely harmonize on
this subject.1
Having an appointment this morning must be my apology for the
brevety of this letter.
Yours very truly
M. Vassar
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