[Letter] June 19,1891,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

June 19, 1891, Smith College.

Dear Friend,
       If you get as
near as Springfield of
course you and all of your
family who will or can be
with you are booked for
Northampton for a good
visit. Don't forget that. I
think I shall be here about
the middle of July. A part of
the month is given to
renovating the house. It
may take till a little after
the middle; but that does
not matter.
I have just declined
a $3000 offer from
Evanston Ill., and wish
to know whether you
would like the place, I
should; and I only declined
from an unwillingness
to interrupt work on my
Distribution treatise. It is
the Northwestern University.
They have $3,000,000
and 1960 students in all
departments. Medicine,
Pharmacy, Law, and
Theology, with a Preparatory
Dept. have all but about
310 of the students. They
intend before long to have
an endowed School of
Political Science, and to
do graduate work. It is
Methodist in management
but is said to be liberal.
Evanston is a fine
suburb on the lake.
Would you like to have
your name presented to
President Rogers? He,
by the way, was the Dean
of the Law faculty of
Michigan University. The
position is in Political
Economy exclusively, though
your Sociology could come
in if you so desired.
Please write at once if
you would like to have
your name mentioned.
We are just making a
finish of college work.
Schurman of Cornell is to
be my guest. I am trying
to properly and yet appreciatively
show up Mr. Gunton's book.
I have three lectures yet to
write for Plymouth School
of Applied Ethics, for July
9-10-11. Not a page in
form yet. Two articles promised
on Distribution for the British
Encyclopedia of Polit. Economy.
Time not quite vacant you see.

        Yours Very Truly,
             J. B. Clark