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I am preparing to set off for Chantilly. Adieu, my Polly.October 2. I have arrived at Chantilly. Nancy was much better than I expected to find her. Weakness is her only complaint. She was delighted to see me, and inquired eagerly for her dear Polly, and was much pleased with your letter. Mrs. Pinkard is here--and a sweet Woman she is. Adieu. Nancy says I shall not write more. October 3. I am just up, and am going to seat myself for Sibby to crape my hair. [Sidenote: Stratford. Residence of
to do, but it took more guts that he had to jump off a bridge, so he went on the Road instead.After he got over his shakes--and he sure had 'em bad--he decided that, if he never took another drink, it'd be the best thing for him. So he didn't. He had a kind of dignity, though, and he could really talk, so he and I teamed up during the wheat harvest in South Dakota. We made all the stops and, when we hit the peaches in California we picked up Sacks and Dirty Pete. Sacks got his monicker because
I said, "Fine, go ahead. About your resignations--"Mel said something indistinguishable--I'd caught him on a bite of steak. Hazel, belligerent, demanded: "Are you asking us to resign?" Apparently I wasn't. So they stuck, and another crisis was met. Unfortunately, by then, I'd forgotten the shock and warning I got from the cat. * * * * * Things moved swiftly, more easily. The GG took over, becoming, in effect, my staff. They'd become more: five different extensions of me,
ion is nothing. Besides, Jerrold found the modern taste forspectacle forming thirty years ago. In his prefaces he complains bitterlyof the preference of the public for the mechanical over the higherattractions of the art. And the satirical war he waged against actorsand managers showed that he looked back with little pleasure to the dayswhen his life was chiefly occupied with them and their affairs. It may bementioned here, that he was very shabbily treated by several people whoowed fame and
