2 you assure me it would give pleasure to the ch illegible g invalid. You hardly imagine what a happy division? your suggestion
means to me To go again into that remarkable region with you so wise and dear a wonderer as you and they. I long to talk
with you of your travels - and it more than flatters me that I could help to make your happy summer pleasanter - and to really
believe that my presence would help Helen to hasten to get well - The very thought of these things makes me illegible about
for a possibility - though I know full well how little reality there is in your kindly words I have lately returned from the
old family home - where I go each year to attend to the resting places of so many of my family - It is only there I find the
major part - Perhaps you heard? of the burning of my brothers Cl illegible 's home last autumn -