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All continuing much the same. Perfect weather here to-day. Your letters come & help me—Still reading Froude's Carlyle, 2d Vol. (anything but cheery). The printing goes on all right—a nice big basket of fruit from Mr. Ingram. Stedman's 13 pages of Ex[cerpts] from me in his "American Literature" (ab't 9th Vol) have been shown me—good—Mrs. Davis's 2d boy Harry has come from California—

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