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mail. To the Doctor, by the way, I had become knit 

 in a bond of close intellectual sympathy ever since a 

 chance allusion to " William Henry's Letters to his 

 Grandmother " had disclosed the fact that each of us, 

 ever since the days of his youth, had preserved the 

 bound volumes of Our Young Folks, and moreover 

 firmly believed tliat there never had been its equal as a 

 magazine, whether for old or young ; even though tlie 

 Plancus of our golden consulship was the not wholly 

 happy Andrew Johnson. 



