James D. Hague 



(Stamped 1893.) 



" Newport, October 24. 

 " Dear Amigo Horacio : 



" I just came home from a month's 

 journey in Canada and my mind was 

 full of annexation already when I 

 found your letter with the two news- 

 paper extracts on the Drake Monu- 

 ment and the British Columbia idea. 

 At the same time I found the letter 

 of Aug. 28 with your copy of the 

 Critic note on the two heroes of 

 Spain. 



" I always sympathize, you know, 

 with all your projects and ideas be- 

 cause they are always high-minded 

 and good and for the real inspiring 

 of man. You ought to be a sort of 

 general autocrat of the spiritual and 

 aesthetic destinies of America, with 

 full power to carry out your good and 

 admirable plans. Yet with all the 

 disadvantages of being a private in- 

 dividual you have really carried into 

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