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comforted, I do not mean that it is lulled by indolence nor deadened by dogmas; it is instead, I am glad to say, comforted by thoughts of things already in progress and contemplation of others which seems possible of acquisition.  To make the definition more clear I must tell you that particularly during the year just closed, as you know, much of my thought and time was given to weeding out and improving or devising ways of bettering my collection.  Various plans from time to time, came into my head and after remaining for a while flew out again.  One thought however, which really had its origin several years ago, when I ^[[was]] spending a day in the British Museum and for the first time had a view of really fine Egyptian art, went through a more