Letters, 1873-1894, to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen and S. S. McClure [manuscript].

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Letters, 1873-1894, to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen and S. S. McClure [manuscript].

White announces the election of Boyesen as assistant professor of North European Languages at Cornell University; praises his work upon his leaving; congratulates him on his position at Columbia; and comments on Columbia president, Seth Low. In letters to McClure he regrets he cannot pledge any writing due to work, family, and health; notes government control of telegraphs in Russia; and sends a portrait of Russian interior minister M. Durnova.

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