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Melbourne, Victoria, June 9 -- 91

Dear Professor:

I wrote you rather a hasty letter just before leaving Adelaide, and am afraid there was not much in it. Like my trip, and the average college oration, it comprehended a thousand years of time and four pages of letter paper, with nothing particular about anything in general.

This part of the trip has been a very pleasant one, and will do much good, relieving one individual of many optimistic ideas about mankind in general, thus sparing the rest of the Earth's population the agony of listening to a fledgelings notions about the renovation of Society at large. If I am as fortunate, and Nebraska is so unfortunate as to see myself back again, there need be no fear of further incendiary writings concerning downtrodden labor tc. Writings there may be, but the color there of will no longer be crimson.

As I started to say before, this part of the trip has been a very pleasant one. The sea trip was not so muchly nice. There were varying seasons of remorse when the