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  August 26.  Sunday.--The  past week with Lucy at [the]
Twenty-third  Reunion,  Lakeside  21-23d.   Thursday,  23d,
spoke at Erie County Harvest Picnic, Cedar Point, in the after-
noon, and at the school building [to] Erie County Teachers' In-
stitute in the evening. Industrial education the topic.
  [The] 24th at home. [The] 25th, Saturday, with Mr. and
Mrs. Post, General and Mrs. Leggett, and thirty other gentlemen
and ladies, over to Middle Bass and called on General and Mrs.
Harrison.
  General Harrison told me Blaine wrote him (or told him) that
my Letter of Acceptance was the best ever written. General
Harrison asked me to send it to him.  This I have done today.
  At the Twenty-third Reunion the presence of General Scam-
mon, of Chicago, Colonel Fisher, of Denver, and Dr. Jenkins, of
San Diego, gave us special pleasure.  The singing and recitations
of Kimberley assisted by Major Palmer and Colonel -----, of
Cleveland, carried the affair through gloriously. Lucy and I
enjoyed it all.
  Our friends with whom we dined and teaed at Sandusky, the
Post family, Mack and his wife (I. F.), and the rest were par-
ticularly agreeable.
  I spoke of Sheridan, the "ride," etc.; also his stirring little
speech at Five Forks.