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Hadley
June - 27 - 1889

My dear Susan -

The seventieth
milestone has not left
so deep a mark on my
Soul, - + my growing
preference for stillness
has not gone so far, - as to
disincline me to be where
you are, - thank Heaven!

As I do not very often
with my wife or daughters
to go out of an evening,
I am not ashamed to