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had assumed the shoreman's idea of dignified repose and began to look like a crowd of imbeciles, inebriates or  paralytics  his ample smile lighted up the whole menagerie still. 

I have thus briefly disposed of the characteristics  activities of the age  and time  of O'Connell and there only remains for me to consider the political status of his country. I shall not detain you long, for as he had no country, it couldn't have had much of a status. He spent the greater part of his life trying to establish a country and died with the job unfinished. A good many people have been working at it ever since with no immediate prospect of completion. 

Transcription Notes:
This is the transcription of the TOP letter, as the bottom is likely somewhere else in this collection.