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  Dear Friend:

Thank you very much for yr flattering suggestion anent writing on the Dutch outflashings &c. I shd be glad of the points fr you any time, & think they wd be the only part of value. But I agree with you as to letting one's thought drop mellow from the bough of the wind; & I must say that I have as yet but vague—shimmering ideas or sense—perceptions as to WW.'s Dutch aspects. But I shall look up Motley & Manahattan &c, when I can, & perhaps something of value may emerge.

Logan Smith is a grand good fellow.

 

It seems nice to think of that good comb-honey of your'n. I have put up in glass 60 jars of currants & huckleberries & have bought today 24 cans of Golden Gate peaches (the best—delicious). I must have fruit, or I suffer much.

It is raining this evening—a good aeonian drench—dreamy & misty & dim—we have a sweet young girl visiting us, fresh & pure & happy.

I was quite amused to see my letter about the G.A.R. in the Camden paper—not amused I mean but willing. I never wrote anything, as Ruskin says, that all the world are not welcome to read.

 

I tho't the most profound and suggestive thought on yr recent article was that about the need of a reconstruction of our ideas of beauty. I shall ponder that.

I find they have Symonds's new vol. at the Athenaeum now, & I am going to watch for it every day until I get it, tho' mind you, I dont expect to be anything but dissatisfied and supercilious over it.

affec. W.S. Kennedy  

Don't see Baxter somehow. He is a very secretive mystifying man,—is good Baxy.

The women are irrupting into journalism & crowding out the men here in Boston.