[1] These names occurred to me, because these three persons left us within a twelvemonth, about three years ago, and all were either friends or closely identified with friends of ours.
[2] I now believe that this was Annie Manning’s first interruption.
[3] I had asked whether she knew any of the three persons previously mentioned, and each time she had replied in the negative.
[5] I have since learned that this was characteristic of him. His letters home frequently began: “Dear Family.”
[6] Several hours later I read Cass’s letter and telegram to his physician, who advised me to go at once to Atlantic City.
[7] Each of these words was written in larger script than the preceding one.
[8] Later developments make it seem probable that this was an attempt to write the familiar diminutive for which his father afterward asked, and that my “too rigid vigilance” shut out the suggestion.
[10] In describing Frederick’s pyrotechnical “upside-down stunts” and the later “trimmings,” the great facility with which they were executed should have been more strongly emphasized. They were all written with extraordinary rapidity and firmness.
