Note 659 — Chapter XXIII · DEFEAT AND DEATH OF GREELEY 1872
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"In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none too soon for she had suffered too deeply and too long. I laid her in the ground with hard dry eyes. Well, I am used up. I cannot see before me. I have slept little for weeks and my eyes are still hard to close, while they soon open again." Letter to his friend, Mason W. Tappan of New Hampshire.—Hollister's Life of Colfax, p. 387, note.