Note 64 — XV
Reading edition
"Also outside 'addresses,' impossible to refuse. Damn them! Four in this Hotel [in San Francisco] where I was one of four orators who spoke for two hours on 'Reason and Faith,' before a Unitarian Association of Pacific Coasters. Consequence: gout on waking this morning! Unitarian gout—was such a thing ever heard of?" (To T. S. Perry, Feb. 6, 1906.)