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RIVERSIDE LETTERS 



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cover of my book ; they seemed to me appro- 

 priate for that purpose, having to other and 

 more elaborate and distinguished flowers just 

 that same sort of relationship which these let- 

 ters of mine have to works by authors of more 

 authority. 



ET EGO IN ARCADIAI 



Design from the cover of Letters to Marco. 



Still these little pansies are not weeds, they 

 claim the right to be considered as flowers, 

 flowers too which are the emblems of 

 thoughts, and, in this sense, the somewhat 

 plaintive motto beneath them is appropriate. 



K 



