H'ry to Wm, July 3, 1895. Age: 52

H'ry reacts not all that well to an Oliver Wendell Holmes speech, sent along by W^m:

"It is ever so fine to read -- but with the always strange something unreal & slightly meagre his things have for me -- unreal in their connection with his own remainder, as it were, & not wholly artful in expression."