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Serious Mental Illness, Consequent on My Husband's Death -- This Recurs Occasionally -- Conclusion of My Diary -- Additions to "The Protocol of Peace" -- Progress of the Peace Movement -- Mr. Hodgson Pratt's Letter -- The Emperor Frederick's Manifesto -- I Write the Last Word of My Autobiography -- My Grandson's Christening -- My Daughter's Engagement -- Rudolf's Speech at the Christening -- "Hail to the Future! " -- Finis.
When for the first time I came to myself again peace had been concluded and the Commune was over. I had been in bed for a month ill, nursed by my faithful Mrs. Anna, without any consciousness of being alive. And what the illness was I know not to the present day. The people about me called it considerately "typhus," but I believe that it was simply -- madness.