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National Institute of Acts and letters To the Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters: The train for Chicago
will leave New York City by the Pennsylvania Railroad at 5.04 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12, from the Pennsylvania Station,
33d Street and Seventh Avenue. Please inquire for the two sleeping cars reserved for the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Berths are provided by the hospitality of the Cliff Dwellers. Members accompanied by their wives will please go on board the
reserved compartment sleeping car. Members pay their own fares, and will please remember not to buy tickets but to pay on
the train. Those who desire to check baggage will please inquire for Mr. Wallace of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the information
bureau at least half an hour before the train starts. The fare from New York to Chicago on the 5.04 train is 24.15. The Railroad
Company makes no reduction for round trip ticket. Members are requested to come in good season. There will be a special dining-car
on the train. Information concerning clubs and hotels at Chicago for members to go to will be given on board the train. Members
from Philadelphia will take the train at North Philadelphia at 7.02 p. m. It is expected that the following members will
constitute the party on board the train: Messrs. Karl Bitter, F. E. Chadwick (and Mrs. Chadwick), G. W. Chadwick (and Mrs.
Chadwick), Wm. M. Chase (and Mrs. Chase), F. S. Converse, W. L. Cross, Frank Miles Day, Reginald De Koven, Arthur Foote, Ben
Foster, D. C. French, William Gillette, Clayton Hamilton, Birge Harrison, Thomas Hastings, Ripley Hitchcock, Wm. H. Howe,
Samuel Isham, Albert Jaegers, Owen Johnson, R.U. Johnson, John L. Long, T. R. Lounsbury, W. H. Low, H. W. Mabie, Percy Mackaye,
H. A. MacNeil (and Mrs. MacNeil), Brander Matthews, J. B. McMaster, Harrison S. Morris, Leonard Ochtman, W. L Phelps, A. S.
Pier, Bela L. Pratt (and Mrs. Pratt), E. W. Redfield, J. F. Rhodes, H. D. Sedgwick, Wm. M. Sloane, W. T. Smedley, Augustus
Thomas, H.O. Walker, F.H. Williams, and that the following members, in addition, will be present at Chicago: Messrs. L. Betts,
Madison Cawein, H.C. Chatfield Taylor, Ralph Clarkson, S. M. Crothers, O. W Firkins, Hamlin Garland, Wm. E. Griffis, Robert
Herrick, Edgar S. Kelley, R. M. Lovett, Wm. R. Mead, Meredith Nicholson, Wm. M. Payne, I. K. Pond, F. A. Stock, Lorado Taft,
Wm. A. White. Your committee earnestly hopes that other members may still find it possible to come. In case of any change
of intention as to going please at once notify the Secretary, H. D. Sedgwick, 120 East 22d Street, New York. HAMLIN GARLAND
ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON BRANDER MATTHEWS HENRY D. SEDGWICK JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS Program Committee Dated New York, November
6th, 1913, 0560465 cC