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2 matter what must wait. Your penchant Sarah for odd relics is curiously active when you mementoize that plant pouch I sent
you. Mrs Yelverstons book I have not yet seen A friend (Mrs Carr) sent me a copy but it failed to reach hither. I saw some
of the manuscript have some idea of it. She had a little help from me, to use of my notebook etc some of wh I suppose she
may have worked into her descriptions. The Naunton family is the Hutching family. The name Zanita is a fragment of the word
Manzanita the Spanish name of a very remarkable California shrub Zanita is Floy Hutchings a smart handsome mischievous topsy
that can scarce be over drawn, but she is not truthful I never much liked her. She is about seven or eight yrs old Her sister
Cosa as we call cher ( I Have I am sorry about the selling of Hickory hill. In my opinion it was a diseased act, but father
is a comet whose course Heaven only knows 3 forgotten what Mrs Yel' calls her) is more beautiful far in body mind a very
precious darling of a child Mrs Naunton or Hutch' was always kind to me but Mr Naunton is a very different character in reality.
Whatever Mrs Yel' made of him. As for Kenmuir I don't think she knew enough of wild Nature to pen him well, but I have often
worn shirts sailed ragged buttonless but with a spray like what I sent you stuck some- where or a carex or chance flower it
is about all the vanity I persist- ently indulge in at least in bodily adornments. I have had to wash shirts sew buttons etc
since I came to Cal It is terribly irksome to me, as for socks I have at this minute seven or seven and a half pairs all out
at toes to a terrible extent at heels also