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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 that there never had 

 been its equal as a magazine, whether for old or young; 

 even though the Plancus of our golden consulship was the 

 not wholly happy Andrew Johnson. 



