Name/Title
AU Lay, George Cowles - XXXX-XX-XX letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.500Context
1415 Chelmsford Street
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Rev J. H. Harris DD.
Westerville, Ohio.
Dear Doctor Harris:
I wish to thank you for your fine Christmas greeting and the lofty sentiments therein expressed and beg you to accept from myself & Mrs Lay our best wishes for continued health and happiness in the New Year and in many years to come. Last summer I gave up my home in the City & spent June, July, & August at my country place at Preakness near Paterson, NJ. where my daughter Emma & three of her sons joined us for the summer. Early in September Mrs Lay & I decided to take up our home with Emma at St. Paul & we then arrived here making a radical change in our lives. This was due to a great extent to the illness of Mrs Lay, who needed the ministries of the daughter & we are now a very happy family.
Dr. Arthur Harris is gaining a great reputation for his management of the Botany Dept. of the University and is about to dedicate a new Botany Building now completed & costing about $250,000, and is a man of the highest type well worthy of his family & record. It is a real pleasure to hear from you & note your continued interest in us.
We were pleased with your son Daniel, whom we met several times last winter in New York and hope he is making fine progress in his profession.
It has been quite a wrench to give up all my associations in New York in my church & my profession, in both of which I have been very active, but it was time for me to retire and devote myself to theory & research in certain lines, which have been neglected in the pursuit of a profession.
I have been admitted to the bar here, but am enjoying a new line of work in literature.
With very kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
George C. Lay
