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Pasadena June 3 1880. My dear John Louie, I should hardly have waited a formal announcement of your wedded happiness before
sending my blessing directly to you, under other circumstances: but never has my life been so involved? and so little under
my own control. I think of your charming house as complete now, of the dear mothers content to lie still get well with so
excellent a story letter always at command, of a certain comforting sense in the fathers mind that somebody will care for
his beloved trees when his time for rest arrives; more than all I hope and believe that this marriage was made in heaven,
fore ordained from the beginning. I could not have been more pleased if I had mixed the cup myself. Dear John Mrs Moore s
with us, she came very much broken, is better and paints diligently many hours every day. You remember