[Letter] June 30,1892,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

June 30, 1892, Smith College.

My Dear Friend,
          I heartily
congratulate you on the
many good things that
are offering themselves.
With the Columbia
outlook still in view
I have no doubt that
you have decided wisely.
I have had a very
distracting time, and
fear that the end is not
yet. Still this much
is settled; I am
on the Amherst
faculty, and for the
coming year on the
Smith faculty also.
The arrangement
contemplates a complete
transfer at the end
of the year. The
Amherst appointment
is to a professorship
of Political Economy,
with a salary of $3,000.
There will be a deduction
from this sum, on
account of absence, for
the first year.
 I am very glad
indeed that you can
come here next week.
We do not go to
Mt. Desert till Friday
morning, so that we
can have a little visit;
though I greatly wish
it could be longer.
Perhaps after the
Chatauqua meeting we
can have a further
visit. We will expect
you, I need not say
with what pleasure -
on Tuesday next, at
as early an hour as you
can conveniently come.
I wish much that
Mrs. Giddings and the
children were coming.

    Yours Very Truly,
         J. B. Clark