1867 Among the hills of Bear Creek Wis,? S.E. of Burkesville Kentucky Sept. 9th Dear friend Mrs Carr I left Ind' last
Monday have reached this point by a long weary illegible walk. I walked from Louisville a distance of 170 ms my feet are sore
but O I am paid for all my toil a thousand times over The sun has been among the tree tops for more than an hour the dew is
nearly all taken back the shade in these hill basins is creeping away into the unbroken strongholds of the grand old forests
I have enjoyed the trees scenery of Kentucky exceedingly How shall I ever tell of the miles miles of beauty that has been
flowing into me such illegible illegible these lofty curving ranks of lobing swelling hills - These consealed valleys of illegible
illegible these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses
of shade em- bosomed among their wide branches These are cut into my memory to go with me forever I often though as I went
along how