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that we are not treading on sacred and forbidden ground.
We approach this subject with a realizing sense of its importance,
confident that you will enter into the spirit of our
inquiries and appreciate our motives.

Your views regarding the University would be of the
very greatest importance, if you will kindly give them to us,
for, while we know that they run in perfect harmony with the
views of the Governor, yet, his mind being so absorbed with a
multiplicity of thoughts regarding the affairs of state and
his own immense interests, would pass over many ideas and suggestions
that yours will ^may hold in crystallization.

If you would tell us something regarding your charitable
work; for, while we know of it in a general way, we cannot
speak of it with that assurance of positive knowledge that it
is necessary, to give the spirit, without stating the facts.
All this, we crave for the benefit of the world.

Again, begging ^{we beg} you to take an impersonal view of the
subject matter and enter into the discussion of the question
as much as if you were discussing one other than yourself, with
whose motives you are perfectly familiar.