Among these letters was one requesting an interview with me personally in a matter of great importance, the writer said, to me myself. This too is not unusual—many, especially young women—appeal to me in order to come into close quarters with my dear one. I replied civilly that I did not grant personal interviews to strangers, as too many were requested, but that if the writer had anything very particular to communicate I would beg her in the first instance to write to me with some indication of the matter in question. We shall see if this produces anything or nothing, pertinence, or, as I
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