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2 I wish that I lived as near you as to be able to call in at such times and have a good earnest social chat upon subjects
one thousand and one, together with some supplements and illegible We live in a r illegible and romantic hollow which I think
I described in my last. Our social advantages are of course few and for my part I do not seek to extend my acquaintances but
work and study and dream on this retirement happy in being so comfortably seperated from the worlds noisy dust but regretting
the absence of friends. Our tall-tall forest trees are now all alive; and the mingled ocean of blossom and leaves, wave? and
Ourl, and rise, in rounded swells farther and farther away, like the thick smoke from a factory chimney. Freshness beauty
are everywhere. flowers are born every hour, - living sunlight is poured over all and every thing creature is glad, - our
world is indeed a beautiful one, and I was just thinking on going to church last Sabbath that I would hardly accept of a free
ticket to the moon or to Venus or any other world, for fear it might not be so good and so fraught with the glory of the creator
as our own - those miserable hymns such as these This world is all a fleeting show for mans delusion given do not at all correspond
with my likings and I am sure they do not with yours I wish Emily that you could be so near or I as near that we could take
an occasional ramble together to bot illegible and to admire these glorious mani- festations of creative skill I hope we may
at some time. I shall take great delight in showing you my specimens, I have some rare ones and I know that you would appreciate
them