Che University of Chicago

FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Office of the President

CHICAGO Jan. 18th, 1900.

Dr. Frank §; -Lijite, Vassar College, Paugnkeepsie, N. Y. My dear Dr. Lillie:

TI am afraid vou will think me verv dere- lict in replving to vour letter mailed last week to the Mur-— ray Hill Hotel, Please 2llow me to explain,, Under the pressure of some friends who were with me, I went to the Yotel Manhattan, but I took special vains to go twice to the Murray Hill Hotel to see if there was mail. IT went Saturdav nicht but found nothing, On Tuesday evening, January ninth, I found your letter, I was very sorry indeed that it had not come to me before, In any case, however, I would have been usable to see vou Saturday, Januarv sixth,

I am delighted that you have given our »croposition favor- able consideration, and I avpreciate very fully the statement which you make concerning future promotion, There will be a meeting of our Trustees on next Tuesday, and I will then lay the matter before them and endeavor to secure a definite state— ment on this point, I can assure vou that I apvreciate the fact that vou are in some ways making a sacrifice, but I am equally confident that in thgend you will be the gainer, we

shall endeavor to make evervthing as satisfactory as possible

to you from the beginning,

Very trul¢ yous 4