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how to state a matter which is in my mind; but if there is any thing out of the way, you will know how to make allowance: In California there is the great University, in memory of your son—a fitting & perpetual memorial of his rare birth and promise. But in the East, and particularly in Washington, when the Senator was serving this country so honorably, there is no memorial of him. His last years, his best years, were spent there; and yet there is no [visiting?] memorial of him. I want