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“May 27. my eighty-sixth birthday.
I slept rather late, yesterday having been eminently a ‘bootandsaddle’ day.... the Greeks, mostly working-people, sent me a superb leash of roses with a satin ribbon bearing a Greek inscription.
My visitors were numerous, many of them the best friends that time has left me. T. W. H. Was very dear.
My dear ones of the household bestirred themselves to send flowers, according to my wishes, to the children's Hospital and to Charles Street jail.”
“May 28.... a great box of my birthday flowers ornamented the pulpit of the church.
They were to be ”
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