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…We miss dear King John sadly. It was so hard to lose him, he was the best and

kindest of friends, and I do not know what we shall do without him….

We went to a poultry-show… and the man there kindly permitted us to feel of
the birds. They were so tame, they stood perfectly still when I handled them. I
saw great big turkeys, geese, guineas, ducks and many others.

Almost two weeks ago we called at Mr. Hutton’s and had a delightful time. We
always do! We met Mr. Warner, the writer, Mr.

Mabie, the editor of the Outlook and other pleasant people. I am sure you would
like to know Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, they are so kind and interesting. I can never
tell you how much pleasure they have given us.

Mr. Warner and Mr. Burroughs, the great lover of nature, came to see us a few
days after, and we had a delightful talk with them.

They were both very, very dear! Mr. Burroughs told me about his home near the
Hudson, and what a happy place it must be! I hope we shall visit it some day.
Teacher has read me his lively stories about his boyhood, and I enjoyed them
greatly. Have you read the beautiful poem, “Waiting”? I know it, and it makes
me feel so happy, it has such sweet thoughts. Mr. Warner showed me a scarf-pin
with a beetle on it which was made in Egypt fifteen hundred years before Christ,
and told me that the beetle meant immortality to the Egyptians because it
wrapped itself up and went to sleep and came out again in a new form, thus
renewing itself.

TO MISS CAROLINE DERBY

New York, April 25, 1896.

…My studies are the same as they were when I saw you, except that I have taken