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THE LIBRARY 
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
WEST POINT, NEW YORK

- As a matter of fact & finance we have now enough money to do everything except lining the vestibule with marble, & there is no pressing haste for this.

- I wish to say to you formally that it would have been very mortifying to me & to many others if the tablet had not been set up here - and that we are correspondingly indebted to you for making this possible.

- How long a lie will live! I find that Griswold's view of Poe is the one current, even among people who ought to know better.

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