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thorough and analytic a mind
that a way[?] of a friend when
his first boy was born sent
a cartoon of him holding aloft the
naked little manikin [sic] in a
wine glass while he was pouring
over him with the other hand, ^str? a
chemical to test his validity ^{to type?}
I can hardly believe that with
a 25 cent ticket I sat with
a crowd in the largest
recitation room of the college
to hear Prof Morse of telegraphic
fame lecture on his proposed
plan for girdling the earth in
no time - messages were sent ^{back & forth}
from opposite corners of the
in confirmation of his inventions
and discoveries - How we have [were?]