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which would otherwise have been lost. I said
a great deal more and so effectually that I
had no further trouble in that quarter, and
Forde raised £300 in his paper for us ^{the League}, at a
time when even that small sum meant everything
to us. I was very proud of my letter to Forde
and carefully kept a copy but on looking it up the
other day I found the mice had eaten it, and it
alone out of a number of papers in a drawer into
which they had bored a hole. This I regretted ^{for the matter had far reaching consequences,} for
having won Forde over there was no possibility
of the Members of Parliament turning upon us
and rending us, or ^at least of their openly dis-
-paraging us, once their own chief American