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evening tea table and all of you are here - you are not far away after all—  I had last night beside the cake, Aunt Eliza's good long letter, telling about the blizzard, and one from Etta and the boys, such dear ones as they write—  I'm so glad Miss Annie E. is coming—  She'll be there perhaps when this reaches you - give her my best love, and tell her I wish I could be in her place in that dear room for a while—  I wish I'd left my splasher for her. There's no room for it here—  There's a door handle right over the washstand and some of Mr J's pictures - Grandma and Mr Parrish's photograph—  I am not on a step ladder in the Louvre, and shant be even when I begin to copy which I hav'nt yet—  It is'nt worth 

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while for Uncle José to bring my tams - Aunt Eliza can bring them when she comes in July - She and Miss Annie Edwards together—  I shall want a new pair of boots - ordinary weight from Bates and Edwards - but if he is'nt coming straight here or there is'nt time to order them never mind - I can get them here—    Think of such a snowstorm - we have had some of it here—  For days it kept snowing a little and making the walking horrid—  But it is like April today - I didn't write in the middle of the week partly because nothing particular happened and partly because I was a donkey and hurt my eyes  but they are entirely well now, and I wont do it again—  
I could'nt keep my hands off my composition one evening, and