If the earth had waited for a precedent, it never would have turned on its axis! "Sept.

22, 1868.

I have written to-day to give up the Nautical Almanac work.

I do not feel sure that it will be for the best, but I am sure that I could not hold the almanac and the college, and father is happy here.
"I tell Miss Lyman that my father is so much pleased with everything here that I am afraid he will be immersed!" [Footnote: Vassar College, though professedly unsectarian, was mainly under Baptist control.] Only those who knew Vassar College in its earlier days can tell of the life that the father and daughter led there for four years.
Mr.Mitchell died in 1869.
[Illustration: THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER] "Jan.

3, 1868.