Received proof of “A Typical American,” by Madame Blanc; a London translation into English sent me for revision. I regard this as the greatest honor of my life, in a literary way—--to be treated so fully in the Revue des Deux Mondes by so able and so distinguished a woman and then to have it fully translated and published in London. Of course it gratified me, even if sometimes overstated and undeserved, gratified more than such pleasant personal tributes as those of Justin McCarthy, Tom Hughes, and others in their books of reminiscences.In February of the same year, he writes:—
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with the inapt title, ‘A Typical American.’
The 1902 diary says:—
Books for libraries press. Freeport, New York. 1914.
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