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Feb 3
Dear Father
The other boys did
not write according to agreement
It is nearly mail time and
the ink frozen - no time to
thaw it or I would be in
time for the mail -
We have got no letters from
you since you left Chicago -
Yesterday came a letter to you
from David Thomas. He wrote
mosty of it for "thy son Roberts"
benefit so I will answer it
probably He argues that animals
can reason [reason is triple underlined]. Gives very many
anecdotes to show that instinct
won't govern all their intelligence.
Says his poem "The Wilderness" was
written to proove this fact
- or at least to argue it.
Cora has Erysipelas I am afraid