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ticipations. It is hard for me to picture you to | ticipations. It is hard for me to picture you to | ||
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| + | know it must be so. As I look at you as you | ||
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| + | were when I left home, I try to imagine | ||
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| + | the change which two years & a half have made | ||
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| + | in the placid half dreamy [countenance?] which | ||
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| + | is before me, but I can make no alterations which | ||
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| + | please me, & so am fain still to think of you | ||
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| + | as you were then, until we meet again next sum-- | ||
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| + | mer. I wonder if the sun shines as brightly upon | ||
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| + | your birthday in Winchester as it does here. I | ||
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| + | don't think I ever saw a more beautiful winter day. | ||
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| + | The reflection of the sun from our ice & snow clad | ||
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| + | river & bluff | ||
Revision as of 22:32, 26 November 2015
Henry Dec 16 1860
So this is your eighteenth birthday
is it Nina dearest? May it be a very, very
happy one to you my darling, & may the future
realize your brightest and most sanguine an-
ticipations. It is hard for me to picture you to
myself as a grown woman, Nine, although I
know it must be so. As I look at you as you
were when I left home, I try to imagine
the change which two years & a half have made
in the placid half dreamy [countenance?] which
is before me, but I can make no alterations which
please me, & so am fain still to think of you
as you were then, until we meet again next sum--
mer. I wonder if the sun shines as brightly upon
your birthday in Winchester as it does here. I
don't think I ever saw a more beautiful winter day.
The reflection of the sun from our ice & snow clad
river & bluff
