Dear Judge:Ⓐemendation1explanatory note I am just starting away on a trip up inⒶemendation the mountains, &Ⓐemendation I snatch a moment to apologize to you &Ⓐemendation Hodnett for my lapse of duty. You see I couldn’t Ⓐemendation do it. I have been on the wing ever since I left you—&Ⓐemendation am at it yet. Tell H. I am on the war pathⒶemendation. I am going after the person who sentⒶemendation this diabolical “Question inⒶemendation Moral Science,” as he calls it, to be elucidated by me. Moral science is my best hold, generally, but thisⒶemendation interrogatory is too many for me. I have not solved it yetⒶemendation, quite, but I supposeⒶemendation I could Ⓐemendation have done it if I had remained in my right mind. You Ⓐemendation try it awhile. You Ⓐemendation are healthy.

“QUESTION IN MORAL SCIENCE.”

“If a man were to signify,Ⓐemendation however, which he was not if he had the power, which being denied him he will endeavor anyhow, merely because Ⓐemendation he don’t, would you Ⓐemendation ?”

It mixes me, beyond expression. Because sometimes I think he is Ⓐemendation, &Ⓐemendation sometimes I think he would Ⓐemendation, &Ⓐemendation then again I think he don’t Ⓐemendation. Other times I think he dasn’t Ⓐemendation. Just occasionally I think he did Ⓐemendation; but then I am not certain. Indeed, I am not certain on any count in this indictment—if it be Ⓐemendation an indictment; &Ⓐemendation since it isn’t like anything else I can think of, it must Ⓐemendation be an indictment. Bring the powers of the legal mind to bear upon it.

You treated me so hospitably when I was in St. Louis, &Ⓐemendation did it, with such a grace &Ⓐemendation such a hearty spirit, withal, that it gives me genuine pleasure to be able to make this well meant return for it, in the way of affording you a little intellectual that will stay with you—that may be regarded as permanent—that will last as long as you do, Judge.