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(DEPARTMENT OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE,)
W. J. HOLLAND, PH. D., LL. D., DIRECTOR.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, u. s. a.
April 17, 1899.
My Dear Mr, Carnegie
There are just two things that I want to
tell you which may interest you. First Mr. Downey, our attorney, informs me that no claim covering the specimen has been filed. The claim which Reed filed was located in the wrong township through an error which he himself now acknowledges. The coast is perfectly clear, and there is nothing whatever to prevent our getting a good title to the land. I am going to accompany the surveyor myself and make sure by the seeing of the eye and the touch of the hand that there is no error made in our case. secondly, Mrs. Schenley has notified us of her
willingness to sell to the University the property which you and I sought to induce her to sell in 1897. She offers it to us at extremely reasonable figures. T had hoped to get from the Legislature of Pennsylvania an appropriation which would have enabled me not only to pay her part of
however, this year refuses to give the University in Philadelphia, our University, and Lehigh, a single cent for anything except hospital purposes, this owing to the fact that the treasury'has been depleted in former years by bad management. What we shall be able to do, I do not know.
I am sorry that according to reports we shall not have the pleasure of having you with us in Pittsburgh before you sail. Let me with you all a very pleasant voyage.
the money, but to pay her the interest on the balance. The Legislature,
I am, as ever,
Yours faithfully,
Director Carnegie Museum.
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