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his book on landscape gardening. There is noth- 

 ing more informing of the growth and the aspi- 

 rations and inspirations of a man than his letters 

 to a close friend or dear relative, and the greater 

 the man, the more ready, generally, and it seems 

 in most cases, the more able, he is to reveal 

 on paper his actual heart and soul, — cor ad cor 

 loquitur. 



Samuel Parsons 



