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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 46 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. 
