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Francis is careful, conscientious and persistent; he lets nothing pass with which he is not satisfied. I have had to make emendations of some of our Washington Work, correct as I thought it was then. - I will not try to write much about the work now. I shall send you the Report as soon as possible & then you will know my conclusions. I am not equal to writing them all out now. I am, in fact, dead tired. We have done a hard week's work here; the week before that I wrote 77 pages of MS on the Report, and Francis and I have been up a good deal nights with [[end page]] [[start page]] my friends, who wanted to meet him. He is a [[underline]] trump [[/underline]]. Mrs F. liked him more and more the longer he staid. I wish you would plan to visit me on your way home, and rest here a bit. Can't you spend at least a week at my house? I hope so. Mrs F. would be delighted to meet you; and I feel as if I [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] see you and have some talk. Writing is such slow work. As soon as this work on our Report is done I shall have to give over the Indian Music for a while. If I don't pay more attention to my school, it