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2 but each will receive your New Years gift. Joanna and her hand of girls, my own girls who are so far away, Anna and her
little folks, sister Annie, and myself. Some of it has already started on its journey with your greetings, and the other will
reach its destination in good time. Your kind thought of us all, making still another bright spot at the beginning of this
New Year. I am sorry that you are having trouble with bronchitis, and hope that you are well again. I think it must be trying
for your health to keep on 3 writing, writing, so steadily, and thinking out those beautiful wood pictures that so charm
your readers, but then you have such love for your subject, and your mind is so full of the wonderful beauty that your eyes
have seen, perhaps they come more easily than I think. I have been reading the sketch of your life in the magazine you sent
to Annie, I think it is beautifully gotten up, bringing in so much that I have not seen in print before and also many of the
most choice quotations from your pen and words.