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My very dear Chief, I want you to write President Eliot, and commend Charlie S. Peirce, as a fit person for the directorship of the observatory. I wish you would especially speak of the efficiency with which He administered the office during the absence of Hilgard – i.e. if you can truthfully do so. I shall soon write to Cousin Lizzy [?] and thank her for her earnest and kind interest in the cause of my friend Miss James [?]. Your ever sincere friend Hon. C. P. Patterson Benjamin Peirce |
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P. S. The cause of Winlock's death is an utter mystery. There is no sufficient cause apparent in heart or head. But the extreme coldness of his hands and feet and his deficient pulse from a stoppage of circulation somewhere's or other – which there is no indication of its occurring in the places most liable to this disease. B. P. |
