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(4) The robins bluebirds have returned - The anemones are again in blossom and the grass is growing green once more - and
we hear give? praises to the Creator all around us - and surely celebrate? with them within ourselves - I enclose to you Anna
Merrill Foster's letter - also a clipping containing words which reminded me of you as I read them. I had a letter from Mrs.
C. C. Parry recently - written in Philadelphia. She complains of very poor health. She enquires very affectionately about
you your family - Says she has very pleasant recollections of her visit in the Alhambra Valley. This letter is freighted with
love best wishes for you all the family. Your sister, Annie L. Muir 1 Portage, Wis. April 8- '90 Dear Brother John
It seems like? a long time since I have heard from you or written to you - And as I am longing for a word from you, I will
begin at my end, and do my part first. It is a rainy, drizzling day, and Mother I are sitting cozily by the fire. Part of
the time she reads, and part of the time she nods sleeps in her chair; while I have sewed thought most of the day - Now almost
gone - And as you see my last thoughts