[Letter] May 9.1891,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

May 9, 1891, Smith College.

Dear Friend,
       The persons who
remember Miss F. C. Brown
best are two of her
classmates who are here
as teachers in the Burnham
School and the college.
They say she was a very
good scholar with more
than the usual amount
of thoughtfulness and strength 
of purpose. She excelled in
mathematics, and was
particularly fond of Political
Science and Economics.
Professor Tyler says he would
not put her in the small
list of very brilliant
scholars, in general work,
but would rate her rather
high in scholarship. She
had a slow speech that
was not quite in her
favor in the impression
that it produced on first
acquaintance. On the
whole the reports concerning
her seem to me to be
very favorable. This is about
all I can say, as my
own work with her was
limited to the one term spoken of. She
had partly completed her senior year when I
came to the college.
 Pres't. Walker has, very fairly and kindly,
sent me in mss. his criticism of my theory. I
must not give it away. What I say is interior.
He will not publish it in the present form I
am sure. If he were to do so it would be a
give-away on his part. I answered every point
by referring to paragraphs of my article. He is
right in saying rent is not a good word to
use for the differential gains of a subjective kind. I
said so in the article.

       Yours Very Truly,
             J. B. Clark

P.S. Possibly the fact
that Miss Brown has
been teaching may
account for her doing
an original work in P. Econ.
Miss Thayer went to
Europe and is now
at home, studying by
herself. She may go
in the end to Bryn
Mawr or somewhere.