I told the Greek professor I had concluded to drop the use of Greek- written character because it is so hard to spell with, and so impossible to read after you get it spelt. Why, I am surprised at Howells writing so. I produced all the stocktestimony--Ben Jonson's sonnet, the internal evidence of the playsthemselves, the actors who had published them--but he refused to acceptany of it. When you get an exasperating letter what happens? If you are young you answer it promptly, instantly--and mail the thing you have written.
I do not recall his exact remarks during theperformance; I was chiefly concerned in getting out of the way, and thosesublime utterances were lost. It was published inHarper's Magazine for August, 1891, and something less than a year later,in Rome, an English gentleman--a new acquaintance--said to him: Mr. Thursday, 6th. A part of me is not present; the larger part, the better part, is yonder at her home; that is my wife, and
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