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United States Senate,
Washington, D.C., May30th, 1886
Rev. W. Austin, [Eyr?]: Secretary=
Mr Dear Sir -
With satisfaction amounting to pleas-
ure, I have received your letter as Secretary of the
Northwestern Literary & Historical Society, an-
nouncing my election as an honorary mem-
ber of that organization. With such associations
I have the deepest sympathy. An earnest
believer in our popular institutions as
a form of government, I have greatest re-
[liance???] upon popular education among the
agencies by which those institutions are to
be conserved. The shcools are the preparations
merely for that higher education promoted
best by the attrition of intellect developed
by associations like yours. To meet often, where
"mind with mind may blend & brighten" is among
tghe best, if not the best, means of attaining a libe-
ral education such as befits the American
citizen who may at a time least expected
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