0. ... May 0 0000 Mr. Matthew Vassar Senior Dear sir your 00 birthday has now passed & I hope pleasantly & ... to you. I was unwilling to take any risk of marring your enjoyment of that day, & therefore deferred writing a word in regard to you of ... 00~ until now. Your assurance in that note "that you have had occasion personally to withdraw your confidence" from me, is of course ample as regards yourself, & yet your letter throughout, leaves the impression that something