e Donkey.

    I send my kind remembrance to your fato your teactle sister.

    Good Bye, dear e to me soon again, directing your letter to Boston. Your affectionate friend PhILLIPS BROOKS.

    DR. o a letter w.

    Beverly Farms, Mass., August 1, 1890. My Dear Little Friend ter several days ago, but I ing to do t I am apt to make my letters  a good w answered.

    It gratifies me very muco find t you remember me so kindly. Your letter is cly pleased . I rejoice to kno you are o ion--t you quot;talk ; as  a curious thing SPEECh is!

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    tongue is so serviceable a member (taking all sorts of s as is ed),--teeto o ts udied all t doubt, since you ised vocal speaking.

    I am surprised at tery of language  makes me t along as  seeing and ter in a great many  fig th guns and cannon!

    t use icks be? You are spared ts and sounds,  in dear little  to do somet, gray-ill sure of being tfully cared for.

    Your parents and friends must take great satisfaction in your progress. It does great credit, not only to you, but to your instructors, o s you in t nolook seems more brig of many seeing and hearing children.

    Good-bye, dear little h every kind wish from your friend, OLIVER ENDELL hOLMES.

    tter ten to some gentlemen in Gardiner, Maine, wer her.

    tO MESSRS. BRADStREEt tuscumbia, Ala., July 14, 1890.

    My Dear, Kind Friends:--I tiful ne I ate of Maine. I did not imagine,  ts of Maine, t a strong an