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any provision for it in the will" be omitted. I suppose in such papers you are compelled to be very exact, and cannot make the corrections here, so I return the paper for you to have altered by the same hand that has done it so neatly already. I am sorry you should have this trouble.

What an awful disaster your Legislative [[?]] met with, I suppose that I have thought more of it, from having to recently been in the Capitol. It was more terrible even than the famous fire, was it not? Is there real need for aid to be sent to the families of those who suffered? Was the Washington Statue injured at all?