Note 2 — FIRST SERIES OF RECEIPTS.

Some few years since, having a great deal of writing to do within a certain time, and which could not be done without employing the night as well as the day, I partook of weak green tea, with a little brandy, sugar, and lemon-juice in it, as a beverage, and, with light food, I was enabled to do with but eighteen hours’ sleep from 8 o’clock on Monday morning to 5 o’clock on the following Sunday morning.