Dear Mr. Winthrop, — I received your note only this
morning, as I have again been obliged to be absent. I
had hoped to be present at the Annual Meeting, but am
unexpectedly obliged to return, and sail in the " Servia "
to-morrow. I hope to be here again next year ; but I have
been so many times disappointed, that I feel that I ought
to resign my seat on the Board and give place to some one
who would not be subject to such interruptions in his
attendance. May I therefore beg that you will communi-
cate my resignation to the Board, with the expression of
my warmest good wishes for the continued success of the
great work which has been so well carried on, and of my
great regret at not being able to meet them at least at
this one meeting more.
With the hope, dear Mr. Winthrop, that you may for
many years continue to preside at the meetings of the
Board whose work owes so much of its success to you,
from its very inception to the present time,

I remain, faithfully yours,

George Peabody Russell.
The following resolutions were thereupon unani-
mously adopted : —

Resolved^ That the Trustees of the Peabody Education
Fund have learned with sincere regret that their associate
and Secretary, George Peabody Russell, finds himself
obliged, owing to protracted absence from the country, to



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withdraw from further relations to this Board ; and that,
in accepting his resignation, the Trustees desire to assure
him of their grateful remembrance of his important co-
operation in the original organization of this Trust, under
the immediate direction of his illustrious uncle, and for his
valuable services for many successive years.
