Letters to a Friend 



be my work until the coming of the winter 

 snows, when I will probably find a sheltered 

 rock nook where I can make a nest of leaves 

 and mosses and doze until spring. 



I expect to be entirely alone in these moun 

 tain walks, and, notwithstanding the glorious 

 portion of daily bread which my soul will re 

 ceive in these fields where only the footprints 

 of God are seen, the gloamin' will be lonely, but 

 I will cheerfully pay the price of friendship and 

 all besides. 



I suppose that you have seen Mr. King, who 

 kindly carried some flies for Mr. Edwards. I 

 thought you would easily see him or let him 

 know that you had his specimens. I collected 

 most of them upon Mt. Hoffman, but was so 

 busy in assisting Reilly that I could not do 

 much in butterflies. Hereafter I shall be entire 

 ly free. 



The purples and yellows begin to come in 



the green of our groves, and the rocks have the 



autumn haze, and the water songs are at their 



lowest hushings ; young birds are big as old ones ; 



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