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GEO. HANSEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 2705 HEARST AVENUE, BERKELEY, CAL. ADVISORY ARCHITECT TO PARK COMMISSIONS, MUNICIPALITIES
AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS May 4th., 1904 Dear Mrs. Muir, When telling the good wife last night that I had written to
Mr. Muir, she told me that you despatched the box . I said that was news to me; whereupon she smiled and said that she told
me so upon arrival of the box; - If I was absent in the flesh at that moment, you must pardon; I take such flights many a
time and transpose to regions that I am in possession of since I found time to think about such things. But I now know also
that the label was addressed to Mrs. Hansen and in this little addition to your writing you have spread the purple of love
over the grace of gold of your sweet fruit. I shall be feasting my eyes on that hence fore whenever an orange passes my vision,
Do half of us realize the worth of woman in our makeup? What would a homeless man care whether he were well or in health if
despondent in an uneven struggle? What is it that gives me all my smile but the consciousmness that a greater one than myself
is it that stoopes over me in my affliction? What is it that makes my lot such as to desire health once more and forever so
as to devote my days and thought to repayment of her longsuffering? - And of her it is that you have thought, of her who is
now walking about the house as if well fighting off the collapse that has been trying to throw her down ever since my worst
spell last fall. Not a line of thought expressed in her face be-trayes the good fight that she puts up, and when the good
help that now assists her to some extent is to go again, God knows a substitute and has 06220