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Written sideways on the top: I received your two letters from Clinton. Very many thanks. Write again when you can. Anything you write is interesting. Have no more time to write now.

Osawatomie, Dec. 13, 1884. Dear Eddie,

I can only write a few minutes. I was quite depressed by the result of the election, and I can hardly get reconciled to it. It did me good to hear that you voted for Blaine. I think St. John's canvass was a great mistake, to say the least - perhaps one of those blunders that are almost as quite a crime. He lowered himself in my estimation very much indeed not by being a candidate, but by his untruthfulness and unfairness. I remember in one of his speeches he defended himself for his one-sided attack on the Republican party and candidates by saying that the Democrats had not had enough to do with making laws to "break up a setting