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It was a brief two days as time is measured; butas time is lived it has taken its place among those unmeasured periods bythe side of which even years do not count. The Library of American Literature was a collection of the best Americanwriting, and seemed bound to appeal to every American reading-home. In all my life I have never made a single reference to my wife in print before, as far as I can remember, except once in the dedicati I very well remember his writing those 'Letters from the Earth'.

It was really apleasant three days. It cannot be safe for a man at my time of life to laugh so much. Thistime, however, there was no reluctance, though he had prepared no speech. --[Forextracts from 3,000 Years among the Microbes see Appendix V, at the endof this work.