[Letter] March 17,1895,Amherst [to F.H. Giddings]

March 17, 1895, Amherst.

Dear Friend:
        I want to tell
you that a good
letter has come
from President Gilman.
It exonerates me
absolutely from the
charge of having
violated an obligation,
and expresses friendly
wishes for my life
at Columbia. He
says that he consented,
in my interest, to the
delayed action of the
trustees. I suppose this
means that he thought
it best for me that
they, should all be
satisfied. The letter is
a great relief to my
mind.
 My house is
nearing completion, and we expect
to move soon. I want much to
sell the house. I do not want to
rent it, lest that may prove an
obstacle to a sale. If I could sell it
I should go, bag and baggage, to a house
in New York; if no sale can be made
it would be very hard to do that, and I
think we shall have to get on for a year
in a make-shift fashion. I have some hope
of making a sale.

        Yours Very Truly,
            John B. Clark