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is my-work and my Ideas and I alone shall get no credit,or at least very 
little.However,I oan truthfully say that this does not worry me though I 
cannot but regret that so muoh of my time was spent in a way which brought 
no personal credit.Seems to me the good book says something about sowing 
where others shall reap..The very day I.presented myself at the Bureau after 
twelve years absence ,.that day the first volumne of my book was sent over to 
Langley!What a coincidence! 
Well, Will I do not care a rap provided I can only regain my health 
and strength once more, and for the rest of my life,be it short or be it 
long,play the part of a man. 
In considering the possibilities of the future there are twopoints I 
have to bear in mind.Neither of my sisters really has a -suff icient income 
though they manage to get along after a fashion—Of course I have been able 
to do very little of late years to help,and there have been times when I 
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would have been mighty glad to .With a slary of even twenty four hundred 
I could easily spare them enough to always help out upon a pinch,when for 
instance either of them ought to take a trip,or in case of sickness,but 
upon a salary of half that I could do practically nothing.Then^too^I can¬ 
not but feel that I ought to be laying aside a little each year against 
the time when I may need it on account of sickness or old agepforr in any 
event my working days will not be very many and there is nothing coining to 
me from outside .-At one time i thought I might get something from my Unole^ 
estate but there is absolutely no chance for that now.. 
