WCP3123

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Personal

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON D. C.,

March 21, 1888.

My dear Mr. Wallace,

I always recall with pleasure your visit¹ to America and my good fortune in forming your acquaintance and conversing with you on so many topics in which we have a common interest, and am glad to learn that you hope to return to America at a day not very distant.

With regard to your son,² I beg you to consider that he is unknown to me and that I have no knowledge of his qualifications in any manner, but let me assure ^you that it would be a delight to me to serve you in the way indirectly suggested in your letter. If he is willing to come to America and take a part in our work, at first with little or no compensation, and is willing to grow by hard labor, I should be pleased to put him in the way of learning our methods and of doing work in conjunction with study in such a manner that his abilities would be fully tested; and all my predilections would be in favor of his appointment and promotion.

[2] Having profound reverence for your great contributions to science and high respect for yourself personally,

I am, | Your obedient servant, | J W Powell³ [signature]