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all I was to do was to write as fully as
I could my personal recollections of your
Father's views and plans touching the
University. Having hardly any material
at hand, there was nothing but my own
recollections to draw from; and so I
wrote some twenty pages or so in that
way.

Then, most unexpectedly came the
files of University Documents from Se-
wanee. I confess I read them with some
considerable fear that they might prove
to be inconsistent with what I had written.
On the contrary, however, I found that, as
far as they go, they confirm my recollections
in all respects.

I had next to consider how best to
use these documents. If I had been aim-
ing at literary repetitions, I should have
taken the easier plan of condensing their
contents in as picturesque a narrative