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(4 lately the ten volumes of E.H. Young with pleasure, from "A Corn of Wheat" written in her passionate youth, into the humor and deeper appreciation of character of the later ones. Humor but not always genial, often acid with understanding but not pity. Then after Hall's poem on Sarah Ann Dewitt, I reread several of her books, charming and delightful in style. I like to feel I have a stake in Maine as the home of my paternal ancestors through several generations. I love Longfellow's Portland memoirs. My grandmother lived in the house he was born in, and which is kept as a memorial. Please give my regards to Miss Faith, and make this a Christmas letter as the postmaster begs us to do. Sincerely, Samual M. Ilsley