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This year, I am told, delivery for cash, will surely happen if prices can be mutually agreed upon.

What a temptation!!!

I shall probably have to wire you again to borrow money for me, but how small can I keep the amount?

I shall practice heroic restraint!

I hope that your trip with Genl. Grant and the others with your family and friends are all giving you great 

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happiness. The sea last night was gorgeous, and Stromboli in the moonlight, a mile away, at ten oclock, was a great gray phantom, most weird and impressive. I intended to have remained up to see Messina at midnight, but Stromboli sufficed for one evening.

Give my kindest regards to Henry and warmest wishes for success in his new business undertakings - I saw Clarence Wooley and his force of assistants and