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HERMITAGE, March 27, 1915.

 DEAR SiR-Y our letter of the 18th inst, together with the copy of the proceedings of the National Institute, furnished me by their corresponding secretary, oil the presentation, by you, of the sarcophagus for their aeeep- tanee, on condition it shall be preserved, and Tn honor of my memory, have been received, and are now before me.

 Although laboring under great debility and atilicton, from severe attack from which | may not recover, raise my pen and endeayor to reply. The steadiness of my nelves may perhaps lead you to conclude my prostration oi strength is notso great as here expressed Strange as 1t may appear, my nerves are as steady as they were forty years gone by; whilst, from debility and afllietion, I am gasping for breath.

 l have read the whole proceedings of the presentation, by you, ol the Sarcophagus. and the resolutions passed by the board of direc- tors so honorable to my fame, with sensa-