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He was quoted as a monster of tyranny and injustice.
His name was George Washington.”
“April 8.... My prayer for this Easter is that I may not waste the inspiration of spring....”
In these days came another real sorrow to her.
“April 10. To-day brings the sad news of Marion Crawford's death at Sorrento.
His departure seems to have been a peaceful one.
He comforted his family and had his daughter Eleanor read Plato's ‘Dialogues’ to him. Was unconscious at the last.
Poor dear Marion!
The end, in his case, comes early.
His father was, I think, in the early forties when he died of a cancer behind the eye which caused blindness.
He, Thomas Crawford, had a long and very distressing illness.”
Crawford had been very dear to her, ever since the days when, a radiant schoolboy, he came and went in his vacations.
There was a complete sympathy and understanding between them, and there were few people whom she enjoyed more.
“ I wrote a letter to be read, if approved, to-morrow evening at the Faneuil Hall meeting held to advocate the revision of our extradition treaty with the Russian Government, which at present seems to allow that government too much latitude of incrimination, whereby political and civil offences can too easily be confused and a revolutionist surrendered as a criminal, which he may or may not be.”
Later in the month she writes:--
“In the early morning I began to feel that I must attempt some sort of tribute to my dear friend of many years, Dr. Holmes, the centenary of whose birth ”
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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