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to meanwhile lying limp with
tonsilitis. Should you care to
use her "home", I trust you
will be the reader of it. You
will observe that she insists on
pronouncing the Greek "Tau" after
the German standard. Or, if you
choose, you can call "brow" as
if it were "braugh!" Mrs Ames's
love for Susan must have affected
her like an inspiration; for I do not
remember her dropping into rhyme
till now since our wedding journey
(1863) when we were en routé between
Albany & Lake Champlain. Then she
broke out —

"The Hudson rests her happy head
Among the northern hills,
And draws into her Emerald bed
The little snickerings rills."

This you are not to use at Washington
though it may appear in Fanny's "collect-
ed works".

Do you know how happily,
your fellow-church folk at Spring Gardens
are getting on with Mr Nichols their
new minister. I trust our new president
remember is doing us credit. Please come
this way & report yourself now & then

Yours habitually

Chas. Gordon Ames

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