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3 learn the use and scope of words and also acquire a habit of steady continued thought. You will find that now is the golden
time for gathering stores of knowledge. it is improb- able that at any other time of life you will have equal opportunities,
make yourselves acquainted with all the leading facts in the worlds history do by all means begin personeringly pursue the
study of natural science, especially of botany. Your range of pleas- ure will then grow wide most illegible everyday, and
a illegible intelligent love for the Creator will become more more in- tense ------------------------------ Do not fret, Anna
about spend- ing a prof illegible life, have patience and do not fear that the in margin: life? . Joanna I will send you
a word or two some day. My fondest? love to all who illegible home. illegible John 4 future will not be rich in satis-
faction and grant you ample scope for activity, usefulness. You are now remote from the j illegible fever wickedness of the
world where Nature has spread a table of beauty sufficient to ravish the eyes of angles. You little know the depth intensity
of that beauty grandeur that is coming to all the undisturbed hills meadows of your home. In all of my wide journeys I have
never seen a place or section of country so rich in sweet wild flowers wealth as your own. Mary you say in your poetry how
great a blessing is illegible illegible but dear we it might be greater for here is the bottom our sheet now that we have
just begun to speak I have scarce illegible left to wish comfort all good things