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diameter manufactured expressly etc etc regardless &c
The barometers installed in the hall under the supervision of the Boston scientific association showed at the rehearsal a fall of two inches when the singers took breath & a corresponding rise during some of the notes.  Professor Poke who with his numerous assistants will carefully note these markings with an electric clock [[strikethough]] & [[/strikethrough]] confidently expects some new developments of the fundamental laws of harmony.  Our readers will remember the expositions of his beautiful theory last winter to those select audiences of scientific lady and gentlemen hearer who graced Faneuil hall last winter with their presence.  
The music begins at 3 1/2 o'clock in the afternoon of the matinée très precis.  The deaf especially invited to attend.
[[strikethrough]] Good Good [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] The more I try to think it serious the more I cant.  Was there ever such a pack of fools.  If it wasnt Boston I would be sure that it was the greatest Drakes Plantation Bitter advertisement or Barnum thing ever got off.

And it really came about and had place in the hul [[?]] of the universe.

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Paris, Thursday 8 July 69.
Dear Fanny,
I've got your letter announcing Max's victory.  I am glad he beat & you give him my congratulations next time you see him.  Who was that Clark that run against him.  Is seems queer that [[strikethough]] we [[/strikethrough]] its been a week already since I wrote.  I never knew a week to pass so quick . I have no news of Mrs. Schmitt [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] & although you said in one letter she would start next day, you did not tell me she had started in the next and Emily wrote next week she was going to come.  Maybe she wont start at all. The Boston Jubilee I guess was a big failure.  The musicians I suppose did their best & well & I hope they got their money, but that was not the Jubilee if I understand it.  The Jubilee was a Boston thing a bigger thing than New York or Philadelphia could scare up & consisted of one hundred firemen [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] in one hundred red shirts with one hundred sledge hammers hammering all their might on a hundred anvils.