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but if we were together it would be so natural to tell 
them. We heard yesterday from Vogeli who made 
the French translation and has just returned to Paris 
with it. Hachette (the Paris publisher) is going to 
make an édition de luxe with forty illustrations and 
maps and another cheaper one without illustrations; 
also to publish extracts with plates in his illustrated 
journal, the Tour du Monde, which is circulated in 
several languages. This will be nothing to us in a 
pecuniary point of view, but will give a wider circu- 
lation to the book. 
Do you see enough of the papers to know how Presi- 
dent Johnson is carrying on — as furiously as Mount 
Vesuvius with all the spit-fire element and none of 
the grandeur? He really seems insane with passion 
and does the most unaccountable things, or rather 
tries to, for he has no power to carry them out; as, 
for instance, this last act, creating an entirely new 
and most powerful office for Sherman in order to an- 
noy Grant apparently and separate two good friends. 
Fortunately Sherman will take no part in this trick and 
declines to accept the office even were it confirmed 
by the Senate. You know Grant has given deadly 
offence to the President by his course about Stanton. 
Imagine that I’m going to open a series of tea- 
parties tomorrow evening — that is, it will be a 
series, if the first turns out to be pleasant; if it’s a 
failure I shall allow it to be the last and consider my- 
self quenched. I came home from Washington, where 
people receive in a very easy and informal way, fired 
with the ambition to set up a simmering teakettle and 
