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, but with a strange & haunting sense of having been on a three days' tear with a drunken lunatic. DEAR SIR,--Please accept a poor widow's good-by and kindest wishes. He ranged throughevery subject from protoplasm to infinity, exalting, condemning,ridiculing, explaining; his brain was always busy--a dynamo that restedneither night nor day. This afternoon he began talking about Claudius.

Tuesday, July 9. Beethoven's sonatas and symphonies also moved him deeply. In fact, General Grant'sderelictions in the matter of grammar and construction are not morefrequent than suc CLXIIILETTER TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLANDIt was one day in 1887 that Clemens received evidence that his reputationas a succ