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Harvard College Library KAVEN BEQUEST, May 17, 1897.

ALTHOUGH every one is apt, in these times of

universal confusion, to regret his particular lot as singularly unfortunate, and to prefer any situation to his own, yet undoubtedly a man of patriot-senti

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