Friday March 23d.
My dear friend’s birthday.[1] May God bless him. I said so when I prayed.
Sent my Scholefield, with this line from the Chœphorœ written on the first leaf—
ειθ̓ ειχε φωνην ἐυψρον̓ αγγελου δικην.[2]
That did. Wrote a note besides,—
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1. H.S.B.’s 51st.
2. “If only, like a messenger, it had a kindly voice” (LCL-A, II, 178–179, line 195).
3. Excision of two-thirds of a page.