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2 Four brook home in the Berkshire Hills, I arrived from there in N.Y. Tuesday eve went to Johnson. Staid overnight dined
breakfasted with hero Hobson a splendid fellow who looks all he is, I raised a big laugh at the dinner table when in talking
about my southern trip I said that Hobson's heroism in sinking the ship amid a rain of bullets was nothing to that required
in sinking ourself in the beds of southern hotels so dirty they wire? so deadly the smells etc. This forenoon Mr Mrs Osborn
took me on a fine drive. Through the hills mtns hereabouts. The views of the river the woods glens were charming. I'm having
a most delicious rest commenced in Gilder's lovely cottage - a rest which is showing me how profoundly tired I was, how hard
stunning a blow that sickness had dealt me. I'm now feeling like myself again. I expect to be here until Monday then on a
day or two later if Sargent is well enough the way through the south is open I expect to start for Florida thence home by
the