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Brooklyn, N.Y., May 11th, 1905.
Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff,
339 Broadway,
New York City.
My dear Woodruff:-
Let me remind you once more of that suggestion about coming over here with Mrs. Woodruff some morning next week in order to show her the opening exercises of this institution. You have not visited the institution while in session during this year, if I remember rightly, and it seems to me that it would be a very nice thing to do.
I have just received from Mr. Grout a duplicate of that letter of his Committee of Fifteen. I expect to have a talk with William H. Nichols to-night about what the Polytechnic folks think concerning it.
I hope that your affairs will shape themselves so that you may after all find it possible to be at the meeting of the Board on the night of the 22nd. If that is absolutely impossible there will be a little more reason why our Executive Committee ought to have a session with time enough to discuss several of these subjects carefully with you, inasmuch as it is evident that we cannot have any other time to consider with you the fortunes of the institution until next fall.
I am still interested in the question about the advisability of approaching Mr. Herman A. Metz with reference to membership in the Board. He has done several little kindnesses for this institution in such a way that I cannot avoid the belief that he would really like to become one of us. I have tried a score of times to get any evidence concerning the rumors that have been referred to in the Board Meeting by Mr. Gilmore in former years, and Mr. Kelley more recently. Beyond what those two gentlemen have said I cannot get a spark of evidence that would substantiate their suggestion, and on the contrary I find a great deal which is entirely in favor of Mr. Metz in every way. He seems to be a man of considerable education, a great deal of liberality and public spirit, universally regarded as a good fellow, and undoubtedly successful in his business affairs. Is there anything more that you would say about this matter?
Yours very sincerely,
Charles H. Levermore