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Once we went as far as theriver, and I showed him a part of his land he had not seen before--abeautiful cedar hillside, remote and secluded, a place of enchantment. He seems to have read everything in the world concerning Rome, France, and England particularly. ' But hestuck to it. t word to him was in a letter the next day; a day later I was illustrating a fantastic article on art with his portra

u see--but that is all changed now; I shall stay here winter & summer both & not go back to New York at all. and fame shall be placed beyond the reach of the blight ofoblivion by a permanent and suitable monument. How Livy would love this place! How her very soul would steep itself thankfully in this peace, this tranquillity, this As it would seem to have been the last bit of continued writing he everdid, and because it is characteristic and amusing, a few paragraphs maybe admitted.