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Paris 54 rue des Saints Peres
Tuesday Evening October 13th 1874  
Yes one year ago tonight the swift train carried me out from the active city which has always been my home to become for so long a time a student in a foreign land, how will I remember the glorious light of the twilight heaven shown over the familiar prairie and though I had passed my twenty first year still with boyish home affection some heavy lump seemed fast in my throat as I stood on the platform and waved a last farewell to Frank and Fred who stood at the depot watching me and then [[strikethrough]] door [[/strikethrough]] on we went passed 32nd Street where but two hours before I had bid Mother and Charlie goodbye - my coragious [[courageous]] and charming mother Englewood was soon left in