My daughter's husband Snow is a nervous lecturer - and the outing that suits him best in both mind and body is a voyage. Last
summer he was two weeks in Berlin - and means to be this. - Aug. 20 I hope to be at Sioux City and help lay the corner-stone
of an obelisk for which money has been voted by congress to mark the first step of illegible advance into the Trans-Missouri.
- I do not hear as I once did - and would give 1/2 of my front teeth (all perfect) if I could. - but my hours of study were
seldom more - and never sweeter. In tete diacritic a diacritic tetes diacritic I have no trouble in hearing. Still write for
the Nation - some of my last were. The Emersons. No. 1822. p 422? and West Pointers No. 1826. p.498. The Nation's great merit
is horror of too much. - Maximum in minimo. - Our Lib. all things considered is the miracle of the age. My 4 children are
all good and are all doing good - and it is the joy of my life to witness their activities. Dum spero spiro James D. Butler