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the first, and beyond question; total strangers to you, personally, would recognize that.
I have many and pressing duties, and these interrupted my reading, as also did necessary trifles, but I was in each case eager to get back to the ms, and always more & more interested.
About the placing of the lectures, I think the question is not
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important, so they are there; but I read them myself, between Parts I and II, and the effect was good, I think. I should somewhat in cline to place them there.
A representative of Harpers is coming to see me on Tuesday: I will open the subject of the ms with him. I think it must have been Ripley Hitchcock