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2 in the eyes of the family, beside the poetical aesthetic side of the display. Humph talk of glaciers their magnificence
sublimity of their broad fields of illegible splendor: they are but skeletons dressed up in gorgeous apparal, when compared
with the living ever growing beauty luxious flavor of nature s parlor gardens The Lord only knows what would have become of
the human race, if Eve had led her fellow into a vineyard instead of a crab apple orchard. It is humiliating to reflect that
such an ass as Oscar Wilde should have stirred up with his ass-the-ticism the wealth beauty of the land to the time of 50.000
dollr. while the world has no honors to confer on the true nobleness of nature But there s a good time coming, some day or
other. 3 Kellogg is still nosing over his illegible drawings. The only recreation he takes is pipe smoking. illegible
has his house in Alameda nearly completed, so that the family is fairly anchored on our side of the bay. The whole family
send their kindest regards to yourself wife. By the way, I ve some notion of buying 5 or 10 acres turning horticulturalist.
I have a parcel of peach, almond, plum fig trees, some grape vines, suffuiently large to put out in orchard shape, I begin
to look forward to the time when it will be prudent to give up professional toil settle down in the quite current of declining
life. I wish you would write