
It has just occurred
to me that a proper epigraph
for the appendix
might be found in Milton's
Areopagitica: a Speech
for the Liberty of Unlicensed
Printing. There is no copy
of Milton's prose works
in the Treasury library,
and it is almost impossible
for me to get down
to the Congressional Library
during office hours,
I am so tied up; but
you can easily slip into
one of the Philadelphia
libraries, and look over
the treatise. It is many
years since I have seen
this—the most eloquent
of Milton's prose writings,
but from what I remember
of it, I should think
a fitting epigraph could
be culled from it.
If I can contrive to get tomorrow to the Congressional, I will look myself, but this is doubtful, for affairs are on me. It is quite infernal that there is no library open to us here after office hours.
I am laboring under a heavy cold—influenza—and feel miserable.

If you see Howard Furness, he could help you to an epigraph. So could I, in short metre, if I could only get at a decent library.
Goodbye. More anon. Faithfully W.D.O'C. W.W.