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Show ADMIRAL SAMPSON'S MEIM- :' ... TAL CONDITION SERIOUS. His Brain Is Tired Beyond Recovery from Long: Concentration. j John B. Weeks, of Champaign, 111., ja persona friend of Bear-Admiral Sampson, has received a letter from iMrs. Sampson, in which she says that Itbe mental condition of the admiral is Jbeyond recovery. The letter was written in reply to a note expressing sympathy with the Rear-Admiral in the personal annoyances he has suffered suf-fered in the controversy With Rear-Admiral Rear-Admiral Schley. The letter follows: Mv Flooi. f . Wool,-. Arlml.,1 Homr..' son is too ill to really understand your most kind letter, just received, but if he wea well he would wish to thank you for it, he cares so much for all "old times" and for anything that eon-, cerns Palmyra. The wording of your letter shows that liviDg in the West has not blind-t ted your eyes to recent events. I have enjoyed your expression of the true 'facts as you understand them. j My dear husband is quite worn out ; iwith a long life of concentrated duty. jPhysically he is comfortable and hap .py, but the brain is tired beyond ever1 ibeing rested. ' Elizabeth Burling Sampson. . |