I take special pleasure in sending to Mr. Putney's memorial an
appreciative testimony to the long tried friendship which we had
for each other. I was with him as fellow teacher under Mr. Fuller's
principalship and after that worked with and under him as principal
until his resignation. Was with him a longer time than any other
teacher, always with the kindest and most uniform relations both in
educational and social respects, and more than all else in the higher
spiritual relationships. In a letter from him a very short time before
he passed away he hoped he might still be in the work of teaching when
he reached his eightieth birthday. I thought he was to be much rejoiced
with that he came so near it and was called up higher while in the joy
of his chosen life work.
It is very pleasant to remember also the close friendships between wives
and daughters of our two families.