tell yet what new emergencies the confusion now prevailing may bring forth.
Who told you that pretty, dramatic story about my return to Judge Stallo's house? It is not quite correct. I did not say: “I am overwhelmed and discouraged.” I never say such things. I found my friends there in a state of great dejection, and, referring to the University to be built in front of Judge Stallo's house, I said: “Now let us talk about the University.” But it is needless to say the conversation about the University did not get under way; we were too full of what had happened, and the piano helped us along.
Let me hear from you as often as you feel like it.
TO HORACE GREELEY
Your two letters[1] have reached me. I thank you for the remark at the close of your note of yesterday that if there was anything in your letter of the 8th that seemed to imply a lack of appreciation of my position and services you pray me to believe that the implication does injustice to your intentions. I am not sensitive about such things, I am only anxious that the reform movement, which I have zealously served to promote, should bear as good fruit as possible, and it was that anxiety which dictated my letter of the 6th. There is
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Of May 8th and 10th. The former is printed in full in Schurz's
3 Reminiscences, 350-51. The only important paragraph in the letter
of the 10th was: “If there was any sentence in my letter of the 8th that
seemed to imply a lack of appreciation of your position and services, I
pray you to believe that the implication does injustice to my intention.
I am sure that you have ever meant to do the right, though your judgment
on important points differs widely from that of
Yours,
Horace Greeley.”
