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Geo. Hansen Landscape Architect Scenic Tract Berkeley Ca. Nov. 25th., 1902. My dear Sir, My last installment of
Baby Roland Booklets , printed and original, leaves by even mail. I trust that you consider the entire let the equivalent
of your very kind order. I wish that more were being printed, and that you could receive a wider range of effects of my work.
But if you are a man who fraternizes with the Seouoia, it is not the bulk that overawes you, it is the majesty. And so it
shall be the sweetness of my booklets that assesses their worth. I delight in the thought that my little bundle shall reach
you on Thanksgiving day. I love to associates circumstances with feeling. Then first away from mother and home. I used to
open my family album at the sunrise of every sunday, and other keepsakes were spreads along with it on the fresh tablelinnen
of my room. May this package arrive in good time, and add to your feeling of Thanksgiving the mite of reliogisity which I
have installed in the work. Look over the booklet In Company where I invoke the spirit of my only sister to also guard him
if my time down here should be up illegible a father s duty could find full satisfaction. I had a fain day when I scribbled
those lines, and I think they are as true as the hand, then was steady. But the tight grip around the handles of my crutches
makes them drawn out of shape, and the fingers, once able to draw and paint as