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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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If I were not too old to travel, I would go to Berlin and introduce the etiquette of my own table, which tallies with the etiquette observable at other royal tables.

I would say, "Invite me again, your Majesty, and give me a chance"; then I would courteously waive rank and do all the talking myself.

I thank his Majesty for his kind message, and am proud to have it and glad to express my sincere reciprocation of its sentiments.
[_Dictated January 17, 1906._] ...

Rev.Joseph T.Harris and I have been visiting General Sickles.

Once, twenty or twenty-five years ago, just as Harris was coming out of his gate Sunday morning to walk to his church and preach, a telegram was put into his hand.


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