How could you go & remember a body in this graceful & beautiful way? It goes far toward reconciling me to the fact that I stand to-day on the mid-summit of life & am for the first time looking down upon the country beyond, while the sun in the zenith has begun to tiltⒶemendation westward toward his setting.

Thanks, ever so many thanks—& from this day forth let both of us cease from scoffing at the old; for we be of that lot ourselves, now.