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Hopeton Aug' 15, 68 Dear twin Ann, I was sorry to know that you had borrowed trouble over me, your anxiety was of far too
rapid a growth, having sprouted, leafed, fruited ere it had any business to come out of the ground, - Those three months in
which I was reported missing were the flowerist of all the months of my existence, no matter what direction I travelled I
still waded in flowers by day, slept with them by night, hundreds of flowery gems of most surpassing loveliness touched my
feet at every step, and buried them out of sight, I was very happy, the larks insects long streams of unmeasured joy, glorious
mountain walls around me; a sky of plants beneath, a sky of light above All kept by their Maker in perfect beauty