Posthumous Recognition

Shall I be remembered after death?  I sometimes think and hope so.  But I trust I may not be found out (if I ever am found out, and if I ought to be found out at all) before my death.  It would bother me very much and I should be much happier and better as I am.  [1880.]

P. S.—This note I leave unaltered.  I am glad to see that I had so much sense thirteen years ago.  What I thought then, I think now, only with greater confidence and confirmation.  [1893.]