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Rh ence before the report is made, and I hope we may have it soon. 



&emsp; My dear General: How are you getting on? I hope this bright Easter sun is cheering you, and healing your wound.

Mr. Straus has just gone to Turkey, and it pleased me to know he had you among his friends. He impressed me very favorably and I believe he will do good service at Constantinople. I hope next year a more respectable pay will be attached to the place.

By this mail I send you an advance copy of the correspondence of this Department for 1886, and will ask you to read under the head of Brazil an extraordinary case in which your friend Blaine sought to induce closer commercial relations with Brazil by demanding more than three times the amount of the Alabama award for one of Mr. Elkins's clients!

My dear Schurz, if you never performed any other service for our countrymen than the part you played in preventing Blaine from becoming Chief Magistrate, you deserve a statue.

Get well rapidly and believe me, sincerely yours.

P. S. I send you a very sensible paper on a “burning question.” 



Let me thank you for your very kind letter of the 12th [11th] inst. It has given me a great deal of pleasure. Answering your inquiry concerning my condition I am glad to say that I got out of bed week before last, that I am walking on crutches, as yet very cautiously, that I