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My dear Miss Gatty
‘A bit of Green’ was only in the number preceding ‘the Blackbird’s Nest’- July 1861. I had been on the like quest for the sake of the few words I have said in a conversation on books in the August number, I should have done so in the July one only that it was another persons conversation into which [it] would not fit
I did not write to you for what can I ... continue reading
Dear Madam
Your book by some means reached me before your letter, and I have been longing to write and thank some one for it, but I did not know to whom to write, though I thought of Mrs Latimer as my only Baltimore correspondent
I am extremely interested in it - in the life growing perfect as it reached its close, and in the terrible convulsion and break up of the happy home. I shall ... continue reading