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MY DEAR SIR: You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me so soon, as I did notpromise when I left New York that I would write you at all while here. But now I take pen inhand to say that the Senate and House of Representatives are having a good deal of funwith me, and hope you are enjoying the same great blessing. You will wonder at first why Isend in my expense account before I send in anything for the paper, but I will explain thatto you when I get back. At first I thought I would not bother with the expense account till Igot to your office, but I can now see that it is going to worry me to get there unless I hearfrom you favorably by return mail.When I came here I fell into the mad whirl of society, and attracted a good deal ofattention by my cultivated ways and Jeffersonian method of sleeping with a differentmember of Congress every night.I have not written anything for publication yet, but I am getting material together thatwill make people throughout our broad land open their eyes in astonishment. I shall dealfairly and openly with these great national questions, and frankly hew to the line, let thechips fall where they may, as I heard a man say to-day on the floor of the house-theWillard House, I mean. But I believe in handling great political matters without gloves, asyou will remember, if you have watched my course as justice of the peace and litterateur.Candor is my leading characteristic, and if you will pardon me for saying so in the firstletter you ever received from me I believe there is nothing about my whole character whichseems to challenge my admiration for myself any more than that.Congressmen and their wives are daily landing at the great national Castle Garden andlooking wildly around for the place where they are told they will get their mileage. Onevery hand all is hurry and excitement. Bills are being introduced, acquaintances renewed, and punch bowls are beginning to wear a preoccupied air.I have been mingling with society ever since I came here, and that is one reason I havewritten very little for publication, and did not send what I did write.Yesterday afternoon my money gave out at 3:20, and since that my mind has beenclearer and society has made fewer demands on me. At first I thought I would obtainemployment at the Treasury Department as exchange editor in the greenback room. Then Iremembered that I would get very faint before I could go through a competitiveexamination, and, in the meantime, I might lose social caste by wearing my person on theoutside of my clothes. So I have resolved to write you a chatty letter about Washington, assuring you that I am well, and asking you kindly to consider the enclosed tabulated bill ofexpenses, as I need the money to buy Christmas presents and get home with

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