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is the right man in the right place - and if he makes the first exhibition a good one the others will be better - I think the first one now an assured success.

I am pegging away at my Washington things and Bess is busy with some things for the Harpers. We are very much pleased with the success of her stories. We have access to the great library here. The largest in the world and she revels in it. Our little chap has had the whooping cough but is now about over it and is the picture of health. We are all well.

I see by the papers that you have had a terrible storm and that Brighton and Williamsburg suffered. I hope you escaped - the house is so very solid I do not fear for it but we don’t like to think of the little woman being disturbed.

I will tell you as a great secret - you will see that it should not get out - that we have been told that my name is down for the Legion of