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We were very disappointed not to see Irving but it would have been better had they left him at home then Mallie would have come here & we would have had a good visit from her while Eliab was in Penn. for he spends nearly all this week there & journeying to & from his land there. The only solace is to look forward to some future time when they can come not pressed & burdened with business to the prevention of all ease & enjoyment, but able to spend some weeks in quiet family visiting. I do not think it either right or wise to be hurried through life in such a way as to crowd out of it the best & noblest of life's enjoyment though in saying so I in part condemn myself; for days & weeks pass on with me filled with mere trivial cares which seem in retrospect only unprofitable; Life is a problem & how to solve it right, a great question in youth we fail to realize the value of time & so lose its best improvement in the middle period of our lives we are in the rushing stream which bears us on so fast that we almost feel we have no time. Perhaps there comes a time in later file when | |||
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Anna D.W. Jan '59 5th page We were very disappointed not to see Irving but it would have been better had they left him at home then Mallie would have come here & we would have had a good visit from her while Eliab was in Penn. for he spends nearly all this week there & journeying to & from his land there. The only solace is to look forward to some future time when they can come not pressed & burdened with business to the prevention of all ease & enjoyment, but able to spend some weeks in quiet family visiting. I do not think it either right or wise to be hurried through life in such a way as to crowd out of it the best & noblest of life's enjoyment though in saying so I in part condemn myself; for days & weeks pass on with me filled with mere trivial cares which seem in retrospect only unprofitable; Life is a problem & how to solve it right, a great question in youth we fail to realize the value of time & so lose its best improvement in the middle period of our lives we are in the rushing stream which bears us on so fast that we almost feel we have no time. Perhaps there comes a time in later file when