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2 not build up a illegible ile simple style like that. I wish to assure you of the great pleasure I have derived from your
writings. Perhaps should be mistaken were its speak of great profit; for I am not so constituted as to make the most of your
treasury of nature-lore. I understand your keen interest in the small things of nature; but, though I was brought up in the
midst of Nit illegible dale on a farm, I have never felt that interest. In a way I love appreciate the fine effects influences
of nature, have read a little natural science: but my experience convinces me that without the inborn love of the earth of
the birds beasts creeping things on the face of it, one doesn't become a lover of nature in the true sense. Such books as
you write, however, have given me times of 3 2. insight, even of enthusiasm; I am grateful for these. I shall never forget
the pleasure of discovering - through your friends the Lunams - a source of pure pleasure in your books, which have opened
my eyes to many things which I should otherwise have missed. I feel as if I knew you personally through them, Dunbar, the
Lunams, the Davidsons. Dr.? Tom Davidson is married to my wife's only sister, I remember also Dr.? Austruther Davidson, his
brother, whom you know better I think. What a discipline life has been in your case, what a pleasure too Pardon this egotistical
note of thanks, It may serve to show you how you have influenced many who may not seem to have much in common with that which
is the life of you. We are all in one bundle of life together, the human note makes us all tingle thrill, though we 05876