February 9th, 1905.
Dr. Charles A. Levermore,
Adelphi College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
My dear Levermore:
I received yours of the 28th ulto., but have actually not had time to write even a line in acknowledgment. I will see you as soon as I can - anyway on the 23rd at the dinner that Grout is going to give at the Brooklyn Club and to which, he told me yesterday, you had been invited. It is going to be very inconvenient for me to get there, but I told Grout I would because it seems to me his scheme is worthy of our consideration and attention at almost any cost. You may not be familiar with it. I did not know much about it until yesterday. He proposes the establishment of a great City University on a site near the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and near where the new library is to be built. His idea is to have Adelphi, Polytechnic and Packer all go into it. I did not have time to go into the details with him, but thought there would be plenty of time for that at the dinner on the 23rd, to which he is inviting the representatives of these three institutions. I will try to see you before that time, if it is possible, but I am going to Syracuse in a day or two and may not be back before the dinner.
Yours very sincerely,