Hadley-
June 27. '96.
My dear Susan - It seemed to me that
you, above all others, ought to know
just what was said publicly, at
that time + in that place, of y'r
husband. The rough little ms. I sent
you was a sketch written beforehand
of I thought ought to be said.
In speaking I varied the language
very little, in thought not at all. If,
you noticed the abominable report in
the "Republican" you saw how
atrociously it altered, added + sub-
tracted. The one sentence it made me
impute to Austin, as a conspicuous
trait in his character, what I expressly
emphatically declared did not belong
to him but was utterly foreign, distasteful
and impossible to him. In another I