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Letter.

New York City, January 7th, 1892.

Dear Mr. Hatcher:

Professor Marsh showed me the other day, a paper of yours agreeing to stay with him until July 1st, 1891 (termination of 5 years agreement). You wrote me that your agreement with him terminated in the autumn of 1890, and I have had this understanding and acted upon it, until quite recently, when as I say, Prof. Marsh informed that your agreement had not expired by six months.

The matter can probably be explained. Will you kindly do so? I am

Yours truly,

Answer.

Long Pine, Neb. January 12, 1892.

Prof. H. F. Osborne.

My dear Sir:

Yours of Jan. 7th received. I think you are mistaken in saying that I wrote you that my agreement with Prof. Marsh terminated in the Autumn of 1890. If I wrote you this it should appear in your copy of our correspondence. I have looked this through carefully and find no such statement. In my first letter I state " I am ready to send in my resignation to Marsh at any time." In my letters to you this is the only reference to anything relating to the subject. Your so-called correspondence between us;

copies of which you caused to be made and circulated last spring I think are
unfair to me, for several reasons, particularly the following: you are dis-
honest in your quotations. I believe you quote me correctly and entirely
everything I wrote, but your own letters you have so changed that in some
of them the originals would not be recognized from a reading of your copies
and moreover you have left out entirely one very important letter of yours.
I refer to the one in which you write me asking me to meet you in New York
to discuss the matter from the American Museum standpoint, and in which you
seem to be in doubt as to whether you would want me in New York or Princeton
Showing that you were not absolutely sure of having a position for me. Why
did you omit this letter if you meant to be honest with me?

Yours very truly,

( Signed ) J. B. Hatcher.