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think Taine said it to him - or in print? Or it may have been in a letter to my father if it was print, I can hunt it down at the atheneum. In my youth I self-protectively closed my ears to parental honors, lest I should be a mere recad? of them - now, of course, I wish I hadn't When I go on to New York I can look in my father's letters (autographs to him) but if you think it was in print I can find it better here - In the meantime I will ask my brother. If I am in New York in December, as I may be, I will try to find you. I'm afraid I shall never go west or do anything enterprising again - but just spend my life wading about in old papers - Yours sincerely, Mildred Howells