Susie dear, it was a good letter you wrote me, &Ⓐemendation so was Clara’s. IⒶemendation don’t think that either of you have ever written better ones.

I went toboganingⒶemendation yesterday & it was indescribableⒶemendation fun. It was at a girls’ College in the country. The whole College—151 girls, were at the lecture the night before, & I came down off the platform at the close, & went down the aisle & overtook them & said I had come down to introduce myself, because I was a stranger, & didn’t know any body & was pretty lonesome. And so we had a handshake all around, & the lady principal said she would send a sleigh for us in the morning if we would come out to the College. I said we would do that with pleasure. So I went home & shaved. For I didn’t want to have to get up still earlier in order to do that; & next morning we drove out through the loveliest winter landscape that ever was. Brilliant sunshine, deep snow everywhereⒶemendation, with a shining crust on it—not flat but just a far reaching white ocean, laid in long smoothe swells like the sea when a calm is coming on after a storm, & everywhere near & far were island groves of forest trees. And farther & farther away was a receding panorama of hills & forests dimmed by a haze so soft & rich & dainty & spiritual, that it made all objects seem the unreal creatures of a dream, & the whole a vision of a poet'sⒶemendation paradise, a veiled hushed holy land of the imaginationⒶemendation.

You shall see it some day.