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and my wife accepts the
issue as a triumph. During
all these years my work
has been under suspicion,
and made the foot-ball
for the scheming ambitions
of small men, and the butt
of the prejudices of infinitessimally
smaller men, and
not having the time to [?]
them out in their subterranian
plottings I must inevitably
in the end be their
victim. Mr Clarkson was
an intelligent and true
friend all the way through,
and I am under lasting
indebtedness to him. I want
to thank you Prof. for your
very great kindness to me