Autograph : place not specified, to [Mrs. Hewitt], undated.

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Autograph : place not specified, to [Mrs. Hewitt], undated.

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Saying she amused him "mightily, as far as anything can amuse me, with your notions of 'self-denial' and the way it is to be brought about;" relating it to the Roman fable of Marcus Curtius and to the last stanza of George Herbert's poem 'The Dialogue', from which he quotes the last stanza.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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