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Sempletown, Nov 9^th 1856

Friend Robert

Your plants, music, and letter have
all been duly received, and I fear you will accuse
me of seeming neglect, that I have not long ere this
answered and told you how glad I was to get them
all. But sickness, company, and now housekeeping
are the causes of the delay, and I hope you will
not only overlook my remisness, but perhaps like the
answer as well, as though it had been an expression
of my first thoughts, on receiving your favors.

The plants I set out, as near as I could
as you directed, and I assure you, though you call
it a "small installment" it fills a large place in my
store of good things, and instead of your being in our
debt, (though we have never considered you so) I feel as
though you had given us a pleasure we never could
return, and that we really entertained almost "angels
[illegible]". Flowers beautiful, sweet flowers, surely are
gifts from heaven, and the one who can pass through

Sempletown, Nov 9th 1856

Friend Robert

Your plants, music, and letter have
all been duly received, and I fear you will accuse
me of seeming neglect, that I have not long ere this
answered and told you how glad I was to get them
all. But sickness, company, and now housekeeping
are the causes of the delay, and I hope you will
not only overlook my remisness, but perhaps like the
answer as well, as though it had been an expression
of my first thoughts, on receiving your favors.

The plants I set out, as near as I could
as you directed, and I assure you, though you call
it a "small installment" it fills a large place in my
store of good things, and instead of your being in our
debt, (though we have never considered you so) I feel as
though you had given us a pleasure we never could
return, and that we really entertained almost "angels
[illegible]". Flowers beautiful, sweet flowers, surely are
gifts from heaven, and the one who can pass through