The change in the verses ad meum, from "thy clearer light" to "the clearer light" may have been made modestly or inadvertently—I don't recollect. It is, of course, no improvement and you may do as you please. I'm uniformly inadvertent, but intermittently modest.

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A class of stuff that I can't (without "trouble in the office") write my own way I will not write at all. So I'm writing very little of anything but nonsense. * * *

With best regards to Mrs. Sterling and Miss Marian I am

Sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce.

Leigh died a year ago this morning. I wish I could stop counting the days.

[6] "The Testimony of the Suns."

The Olympia,
Washington, D. C.,
April 15,
1902.

Dear Sterling,