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of the human side of the letters they are given to answer. All letters are ground out in the same mill. I am very sorry for the denial of the old mother's harmless request. 

I hope you will be careful of your health. I do wish that rubbing, a proper rubbing, could be tried. I went to see Dr. Curtis but he was in New York. he had had to go away & rest for he has been working very hard.

I shall try to get to the Smithsonian as soon as I can, for I want to see the Waxube you sent. I am glad you opened it and looked over it carefully for you need to know the contents. By-the-way you never sent me the notes I took when the Waxube was opened by Mr. Hodge & which you could not read, for me to write them out for you so you could use them?

Don't forget to tell me if you took away the brass horn of our graphophone?

As to my work in connection with the Institute, Prof Kelsey has been here, and he and Prof. Caude spent