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The more one learns I think the more one [[strikethrough]] falls back [[/strikethrough]] sees to influence. Indeed everything in the world seems to hang together & [[strikethrough]] help [[/strikethrough]]
leave its [[strikethrough]] action [[/strikethrough]] effect on everything else, and [[strikethrough]] one in such a mass th [[/strikethrough]] so one falls back more on his prejudices & feelings so as to use the knowledge gained from everything else to the solution of a new problem, and we cannot be too careful about putting in trash.  A poem may give you by communicating
a man's feeling his judgments & experience of years & you become a part of him. How well Dante knew what a word was. You [[?]] feel their force almost as he [[?]]. Send me some more of A.E.D. poetry if you see any. It is very different from Dante & nevertheless you may learn something from it, what words are not.

You owe me a good many letters I think for this one I continue to write once a week as I have always done. Give my love to Joan [[??]] & Amy & Ida; & Emily who has written me a letter which I have not answered for want of time, yours is so long. Bill Crowell is well. I got the second copy of the draft with your writing on it. Send me new of Uncle Emmoo [[??]] the Lewiss Delaney Wynn [[??]] Mr Gardel Charley Boyer