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3 I receive intense delight from the study nature and would not sell my knowledge of plants for all the wealth in the world
wandering star and move in as crooked an orbit as any star in the sky, but I believe that you will admit the soundness of
my advice never- theless. You will have a fine flower garden Sarah at your new home, and your town carpets and furniture
will be easily removed, and if your children will thus loose the advantages of a town, they will also avoid its evils. deleted
and I wish Sarah with more than ordinary emphasis that I could make you that long visit you speak of but fear that it is
very far distant yet I never before felt as utterly homeless as now, I do not feel sad, but I cannot find a good boarding
place to say nothing of a home I have not heard from Dan very lately. He is boring easily among a lot of slow unspeculative
Dutch men His boarding place is worse than mine but he does not care a bit - 4 and so I have not yet unpacked my trunk,
and am at any mom- ent as ready to leave this house for a march as were the Israelites while eating the Passover, but much
as I love the peace quiet of retirement I feel some- thing within - some restless fires that urge me on in a way very different
from my real wishes and I suppose that I am doomed to live in some of these noisy commercial centres. Circumstances over
which I have had no control almost compel me to abandon the profession of my choice and to take up the business of an inventor,
and more that I am among machines I begin to feel that I have some talent that way and so I almost think unless things change
soon I shall turn my whole mind into that channel Remember me to all my friends Tell Anna George to make a little garden
w/uncle John The forest here is almost in full leaf I have found wild flowers for more than a month now I gathered a handful
about a mile a half from town this morning before breakfast When I first entered the woods and stood among the beautiful flowers
trees of Gods own garden so pure chaste lovely I could not help shedding tears of joy