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pare for my drawing pupils. The larger engravings by 

 Mr. Allen may also be used with advantage as copies for 

 drawings with pen or sepia. 



ROME, 10th May (my father* s birthday). 



I found the loveliest blue asphodel I ever saw in my life, 

 yesterday, in the fields beyond Monte Mario, a spire two 

 feet high, of more than two hundred stars, the stalks of 

 them all deep blue, as well as the flowers. Heaven send 

 all honest people the gathering of the like, in Elysian 

 fields, some day ! 



