Marshall Statesman in Marshall, Michigan

Knot and engagements from a bygone tale

The fragment recounts a Maui era anecdote about a wedding knot ceremony with Grace Fletcher and a later note on Mr. Gough in Edinburgh. It includes the peculiar tale of a tapa knot as a marriage symbol and reflections on small courtesies, followed by a delayed digression on a British tax schedule affecting Mr. Gough and his lecture earnings.