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Republican presidential nomination. We even hope 

 to give the electoral vote of Massachusetts, stanchest 

 of Republican States, to the Democratic candidate. 

 But I need not bore you with American politics. 



Let me say how sorry we were not to see Miss Fox 

 at our home. It might have been, except for a little 

 journey we made from Philadelphia, of which I must 

 tell you more. 



I had a mere glimpse of Miss Fox at Montreal, 

 and a little more of her cousin. She came late to 

 Philadelphia, where Mrs. Gray (who was not at Mon- 

 treal) and I had a most pleasant chat with her at a 

 garden reception. The next day I went out to the 

 suburban place where she was visiting, and came near 

 to winning her for our expedition, at least as far as to 

 Luray cave, and the Natural Bridge in the Valley of 

 Virginia. But the engagements she had made could 

 not be reconciled. Her hostess was to take her to 

 this neighborhood, but too early for us to receive her 

 here. All good people in this country think so much 

 of Caroline Fox that they wished to know her sister. 



I have not seen the book by Mr. Arthur on differ- 

 ence between physical and moral laws, and am not 

 sure that I ever heard of it or of the author. Who is 

 the publisher ? I might find it at the university library. 

 No, I never had the fortune to see, much less to know 

 Maurice. Of course I have always known a good deal 

 about him and of the remarkable influence he ex- 

 erted, both in person and in his writings, " in which 

 were some things hard to understand," such as his 



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liking for the Athanasian creed, but nothing that was 

 not most excellent in spirit. 



Of course I well remember Miss Wedge wood ; and 

 we had occasional correspondence up to the time when 



