2 their beauty and refinements and all their charms and lovely perfections till dear me they illegible be to over head?
and ears illegible with the very poem. But the modern alas, alas what a change. change did I say yes change. confounded change.
I blush to think of it they take what they call their very faults and rhyms them and then speak them with great vehemence
and energy even before the girls very faces. One of their what they call faults is the way the girls dress what imprudence
just as if the girls had not a right to dress as they have a mind to illegible talks about their hoops and spin it out till
they seemed to make one think they were going to get up a Locomotive and Roadsall (tail first if you please) to take a journey
around them. Excuse me John but perhaps illegible secipro- cated love was the cause of your rhyming against the sweet little
creatures. To love is painful that is 3 true. Not to love is painful to. But oh it gives the greatest pain To love
and not be loved again. I am sorry John I did not call in as I might have seen the face of a young female of eighteen with
blue eyes and fair hair flowing in lines of beauty from the parting of the fair forehead to the exquis illegible ears and
then falling in a cataract of golden glory over her shining shoulders with eyes full of love illegible as the deep sea and
as fathomless in their deep dark beauty her well poised head and noble neck with illegible half maidenly half womanly in its
undulating graces the rounded form altogether presenting a manifestation of womanly glory and loveliness that could have had
its ideal only in the refined and passionate imaginations of the poet John Muir Esqr. and has turned him taporilterie. But
I did not get your letter till next day at night and that morning I was in a hurry to get their and the horses were always
sliping so I had to let them walk at night I was on foot and late next morning I was in as big a hurry with George and his
horses. coming home again I had not