March 26th.
_Mr. D. L. L. Smith._
SIR: You never answer any questions; you never show the slightest
interest in anything I do. You are probably the horridest one of all
those horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, not
because you care a bit about me, but from a sense of Duty.
I don’t know a single thing about you. I don’t even know your name.
It is very uninspiring writing to a Thing. I haven’t a doubt but
that you throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading
them. Hereafter I shall write only about work.
My reëxaminations in Latin and geometry came last week. I passed
them both and am now free from conditions.
Yours truly,