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2 during my stay in Florida, for this quiet life is conducive to meditation and there is not much to be done beside hoeing; except to "shin" pine trees which are so full of pitch that you are likely to get stuck and never come down. I have begun to read my step-mother's Life of Michel Angelo by Grimm which is a history of Florence & c in his times (did you tell me once that you had read it?) It is an interesting work, though not very fluently translated. I find myself remarking