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I used to restrict myself to four and five hours a day and five days in the week, but this time I have wrought from breakfast till 5. life passed to the relief & the peace of death after as months of unjust & unearned suffering. Most of my acquaintances are enthusiastic over the spring and summer months, but very few care much for it the year round. And once during the evening he said: He was one of our two or three real Presidents.

We were off the following afternoon: Howells, Robert Underwood Johnson,one of the Appletons, one of the Putnams, George Bowker, and others wereon the train. General Grant, surrounded by his splendidly uniformed staff, sat in theforeground, and behind was ranged a levee of foremost citizens of therepublic. I think he received the most cordialwelcome of any one who came. It was to prove a remarkable period lessvoluminous than the first, but even more choice, containing, as it would,besides Joan