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3 delightful evenings at the opera, which will last me for a long time, for you know music is my one aim desire in life,
when I can listen to it, all else passes out of my mind, I seem to be in another world. Our weather during the past few days
has been cold enough for a Laplander father I are hurrying to get off to Florida to escape as much of it as we can; we shall
start about the middle of this month, not 2 seen that their stomachs are well filled, their time pleasantly occupied,
what time or inclination have I to write more than the illegible est notes to my friends,? I try like to give you mine. My
only vacation since last August was a week or two in Boston just be- fore the holidays it could hardly be called a vacation
for I had so much Christmas shopping to do that I did not rest at all; however to pay for that, I had seven