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00380 Oct 1866 Osgood Smith Iapolis 11? illegible I have not before sent these feelings and thoughts to anybody, but I know
that I am speaking to one who by long deep communion with Nature understands them, and can tell me what is true, or false
and unworthy in my experiences, The ease with with with which you have read my mind from hints taken from letters to my child
friends gives me confidence to write - Thank you for the compliment of the great picture frame - that is at least one invention
that I should not have discovered - -but the picture is but an ins illegible -an animal cola, I have stood by a Majestic pine
witnessing its high branches waving in sign of worship , or in converse with the spirit of the storms of autumn, till I forgot
my very existence, and thought