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in margin: Call your little girl Mary or Margaret 4 Annie is now quite as well as any of us - no cough, no pale sickly looks
but much appetite brisk ambition the only thing lacking is work. She has nothing to do that is enough to make anybody unhappy
I have been trying to make a student out of her. a botantist or anthropologist or something of the sort but she does not seem
to take very heartily to such work calls me a hard master teacher. Probably she contemplates marriage with some minister or
other anything in the way of everyday work would be good for her. Thanking you for the pictures Mary wishing you all Happy
New Year I am ever your loving brother 1 Martinez December 5th 1886 Dear Highland Mary The box came safely we are
all greatly indebted to you for the brave effort you have made to give a picture of father. But the sad truth remains that
we have no real likeness of him I cannot see in your careful effort any characteristic expression of his countenance but it
seems a real use nevertheless, we can but do our best to recall his features when he was in his prime - his face lighted with-
enthusiasm for what he saw as Gods eternal truth love The lilies are very beautiful well painted but not to my taste well
grouped The crowded 83