PROFESSOR KELLEY ASSISTS IN KOSCIUSZKO MEMORIAL

The following is quoted from the December number of "The Minute Man," an official bulletin of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Professor Kelly is now on leave of absence and teaching at the University of Cracow in Poland.

Compatriots will recall the account in TheMinute Man for June last of the request of Compatriot Kelly for bits of the earth from the battle grounds of Saratoga and Yorktown, the scenes of Kosciuszko's great triumphs in behalf of young America, to be taken by him to Cracow this fall and be there deposited on the Kosciuszko Memorial Mound in that city. The request was complied with through the efforts of the Secretary General and the President General, Mr. Lewis, and of Compatriot Charles E. Ogden, Secretary of the Saratoga Battlefields association. The following letter, expressing the gratitude with which this gift was received, was written to Compatriot Silsby, of the Massachusetts State Society, of which Compatriot Eric P. Kelly is a member:

Senat Akademicki, Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego Collegium Novum, The Jagellonian University, Krakow (Cracow), Poland, October 7, 1925. T. Julien Silsby, Historian, Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution.

Dear SirCapt. Eric Philbrook Kelly, whom I had the greatest pleasure of welcoming to our university today, has delivered me your letter of August 12 and the casket containing soil from the battlefields of Saratoga and Yorktown, and from General Kosciuszko's garden at West Point. For this noble gift please accept the expression of our heartfelt thanks. The soil associated with memories both of Poland's national hero and of American struggle for independence is doubly sacred to the Pole, espe,cially at the present time, when America's share in the .deliverance of our country and America's generous assistance to our nation in its postwar distress are within fresh and ever-grateful memory.

The casket has been handed over by myself to the Mayor of Cracow at a meeting of the corporation, and a committee has been formed which will organize an appropriate celebration. On the 15th inst., the 108 th anniversary of Kosciuszko's death, the precious gift will be solemnly deposited on the summit of the mound near Cracow, which constitutes the national memorial to Koseiuszko. The pieces of American earth will rest there side by side with portions of soil from Kosciuszko's battlefields in Poland. Thus, owing to your kind thought, the brotherhood of our two countries, rooted in common memories of heroic struggles for liberty, will find lasting and symbolic expression.

In requesting you to convey the expressions of our warmest gratitude to the committee of the Society, I have the honor to remain, dear sir,

Yours faithfully, (Signed)

Rector of the University.