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CLEMENS,--I have been conscious of a vivacity and facility ofexpression this afternoon beyond the normal and I have just discoveredthe reason!! well as they passed--Goodman, McCarthy, Gillis, Curry,Baldwin, Winters, Howard, Nye, Stewart, Neely J They were a rough lot,but that's nothing; everybody looks rough that travels afoot. Don't speak to me, he said; don't make me talk.

Great ideas, once developed, are often like that. He evendefended American newspapers, which he had himself more than onceviolently assailed for misreporting him and for other jo But I am the only person who has noticed this; everybody here thinks He is playing the game for this side, & for this side only. I confess Iwent with a certain degree of awe, for one could not but be overwhelmedwith the echoes of the great splendor he