was represented as guilty of
the paltry platitude that he
was "Sometimes impatient with his
sickness"-! Sic!, thereby turning
what followed in the whole para-
graph into an absurdity. What I said was
that he himself was sometimes impatient
at "himself". Considering the subject,
the company, the semi-official occasion,
the responsibility of the speaker, to
say nothing more, such a newspaper
travesty is unpardonable. The sore-
ness of it hangs about me like a
sprained ankle, a cut sinew, or
a gash in the face. It has half
spoiled the week of peace here. Last
year it was very much so. I took great
pains to furnish an exact written copy
of my tribute to Ar'r [Arthur] Seeley. It was
mutilated + mangled. In both cases
the speech was made at the request of
the authorities of the College for its
benefit, cheerfully + with goodwill.