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“Shoulder Your Cross”—“Show Yourself a Man”

I cannot see what more can be done in this case, and I think that the only thing that you can do is to give up your wife. If she is thus determined not to live with you, both she and you would be most miserable to attempt it. And as she has fully and determinedly set her stakes you can only shoulder your cross and show yourself a man. Letter 40, 1888, p. 1. 1MR 166.5

White Estate

Washington, D.C.,

August 22, 1948.