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Show rbJ$ IHTEBESTIlTa LETTEB. Dr. Edward Everett Hale tells of an amusing: rebuke once given by Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Prof. E. S. Morse lor the tatter's Illegible handwriting-. According to Dr. Hale, Mr. Aldrich Cot back at the professor in this wise: "My Dear Morse: It wa very pleas- lng to me to get your recent letter. Perhaps Per-haps I should have been more pleased had I been able to decipher the same. I have not been able to master any of It beyond the date, which I knew, and the signature, which I guessed at. This Is a singular and perpetual ' charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old; it never loses its novelty. One can say to " one's self every morning: Here's that letter of Morse's. I haven't read It yet. I think I'll take another shy at it today, and maybe I shall. In the course of a few months, be able 40 make out what he- means by those t'S that look like w's and those 1's that have no eyebrows.' Other letters are read and thrown away, but yours are kept forever unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime. Admiringly yours, T. B. Ald- |