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“July 1.
Oak Glen.... found a typed copy of my ‘rest’ sermon, delivered in our own church, twelve years ago. Surely preaching has been my greatest privilege and in it I have done some of my best work.”
“July 2. unusually depressed at waking.
Feared that I might be visited by ‘senile melancholia’ against which I shall pray with all my might.... began Plato's ‘Laws.’
”
Plato seems to have acted as a tonic, for on the same day she writes to her daughter-in-law, expressing her joy in “Harry's” latest honor, the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred by Harvard College:--
She was indeed proud of all her son's honors; of any success of child or grandchild; yet she would pretend to furious jealousy.
“I see your book is praised, Sir!”
(or, “Madam!” ) “It probably does not deserve it. ”
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