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my travels & couldn't remember the address. Will you not kindly apologize to the proper persons for me when next you meet them- especially to [[M. Dekay?]] & my other seconder whose name was unknown to me & explain that I am not ordinarily so discourteous but that illness & absence from the city are responsible for the apparent grossness of my neglect.  I am not very well yet and my wife is quite fagged out; we have had a great deal of anxiety about [[Mr?]] Hale; but we have strength enough left to wish we were where we could see you + [[Mr?]] Warner to whom please give our very best regards.  I wonder how the caryatids are getting on.  The "Garfield" at Washington is the worst yet; it is singular that plagiarisms of fine things can be so appalling.

Ever yours

W. C. Brownelle