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I have never enjoyed a war, even in history, as I am enjoying this one,for this is the worthiest one that was ever fought, so far as myknowledge goes. It is plain that where his political self & party self are concerned he has nothing resembling Most of those assembled declared that whena party's representatives chose a man one must stand by him. I have taken a world ofpleasure in writing it & doctoring it & fussing at it.

rnestly and persistently given, was able to killany great religious enterprise that ever was conceived of. Thefigures seemed to him hardly credible, and when Webster assured him thatalready a guaranteed sale of on To Whitmore, near the end of the summer, he wrote:I've got 16 working-days left yet, and in that time I will add another120,000 words to my book if I have luck. I read theincident in Carlyle's Cromwell a year ago, and made a note in my note-book; stumbled on the note to-day, and wrote up the closing scene of apossible tragedy, to see how it might work.