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2 Four of Daves friends arrived in our little valley a week ago seem greatly delighted with the exchange of the snow the
blue toes blue nose frosts of fair Portage, for the balmy sunshine of California December its fresh grass flowers lark song-
I heard you had a severe attack of illness. its a tough world when so i illegible ent a body as you should suffer so Thank
Heaven you are safely well again. Those boys must be men nearly unless stunted by those savage Kearney winds, your lassie
too she must be growing unless kept down by the wind 3 Tell Willis he had better come away to a better country I'm not
joking, I really think he had better come out of that I had a good time in Europe New York, but it seemed very hard work to
travel in a civilized tourist way I got very tired of it. In New York I saw most of the makers of our current literature scientists.
was taken to the clubs. had enough more of champagne dinners etc Went up the Hudson - to Boston - Cambridge Concord where
I dined with Ralph Waldo Emersons sons- then went to Thoreau's Walden Pond etc. Went pretty thouroghly