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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 7.75, October 25, 1896. Handwritten letter to physician and poet Silas Weir Mitchell, in full: "Your generous appreciation of my address has heartened me more than I can say. I wanted very much to say to you in person how it had cheered and fortified me, but was prevented by the hurrying engagements of the Celebration. I know of no one whose praise I would rather have than yours, and I hold the doctrines of my address with so deep a conviction that to be told that I expressed them adequately gives me the keenest pleasure. 'The form of sound doctrine' seems to me of the utmost consequence; 'the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science,' 'the breath of the finer spirit of all knowledge,'—the education and enfranchisement of the spirit, seem to me the real stuff alike of culture and of intellectual power; and I only wish I could have given such a view of the truth as it would be impossible to forget: for a man has such an audience only once in a life-time." In fine condition.
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