Posthumous Recognition

Shall I be remembered after death? I sometimes think and hope so. But I

trust I may not be found out (if I ever am found out, and if I ought to

be found out at all) before my death. It would bother me very much and I

should be much happier and better as I am. [1880.]

P.S.—This note I leave unaltered. I am glad to see that I had so much

sense thirteen years ago. What I thought then, I think now, only with

greater confidence and confirmation. [1893.]

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