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I have yours 28 Feb. and 1 March enclosing John Burroughs of 27 Feb. and the funny little wood cut. So you have become immortal in a cigar advertisement!! Well done! I always thought you would come to something if you stuck to your business long enough! Burroughs' letter is deeply interesting—but what ails the fellow that he is so damned pathetic? He is (I judge) fairly well fixed (as things go)—good reputation, lovely home, enough to eat &c. &c. then why is he so infernally down in the mouth all the time? I don't see anything to whine about in getting old—think (on the whole) it is rather a good joke—my strongest feeling   about it is: what is to come next? That we are going to (or towards) the bad all the time does not occur to me as likely at all and if not what is there to be blue about? I have just received and answered the enclosed long letter from Mrs O'Connor which I am sure you would like to read—you need not return it. I have some notion that I may take a week's run about middle of April to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. I shall look out for the May Century with considerable interest. We are pegging away at the meter trying to get it on its feet and I look to succeed all in good time but it will take weeks perhaps months yet

Always affectionately R M Bucke