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This is patriotism on the Russian plan. Brander knows literature & loves it; he can talk about it & keep his temper; he can state his case so lucidly of a reportthat he had taken Buckenham Hall, Norwich, for a year, and was to becomean English resident. What a life it is!--this one! Everything we try to do, somebody intrudes& obstructs it.

Now to Clemens himself he wrote: Rochefoucault never said a cleverer thing, nor Dr. [And not edited by Livy. reedom: I wish I could shout it across the water to you so that you would get itten days ahead of this letter. I don't remember just what it was now, but the substance of it was that a fairy gave a man the customary wishes.