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Letter, 2 June 1859, pages 10-15 (Transcriptions Needed)

Grass Valley -- 2 June 1859 - 10.jpeg

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<!--This is a comment: I cannot make out the first word cut off at the top of the page. Perhaps "Him", "Now", "How", or "Dim"? Also, this appears to possibly be a poem (as described in next paragraph) and is separated in style from the rest, so I used blockquote formatting codes. I did the same for the block quotation at the end of the page. Please edit if blockquote is unnecessary or inappropriate for this transcription. I was unsure if the margin notes, which apply to the lines they are next to, should be entered afterward or after each block of text they refer to, so I entered them at the bottom. Please edit as necessary. -MS--><blockquote>within her breast.<br>Gently!<br>She is sleeping,<br>She has breathed her last,<br>Gently!<br>While you're weeping<br>She to heaven has pass'd.</blockquote>
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<!--This is a comment: I cannot make out the first word cut off at the top of the page. Perhaps "Him", "Now", "How", or "Dim"? -MS--><blockquote>Him[?] within her breast.<br>Gently!<br>She is sleeping,<br>She has breathed her last,<br>Gently!<br>While you're weeping<br>She to heaven has pass'd.</blockquote>
  
 
And here are four lines of poetry that seem so truthful that I cannot hep transcribing them. The fair authoress has been walking in one of the large cemeteries where a particular spot is laid off for the burial of infants, and thinking o'er these <q>Little Graves</q>, she says:
 
And here are four lines of poetry that seem so truthful that I cannot hep transcribing them. The fair authoress has been walking in one of the large cemeteries where a particular spot is laid off for the burial of infants, and thinking o'er these <q>Little Graves</q>, she says:
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<blockquote>There's many an empty cradle, there's many a<br>vacant bed,<br>There's many a lonely bosom, whose life and joy have<br>fled,<br>For thick in every graveyard the little hillocks lie,<br>And every hillock represents and Angel in the sky.</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>There's many an empty cradle, there's many a<br>vacant bed,<br>There's many a lonely bosom, whose life and joy have<br>fled,<br>For thick in every graveyard the little hillocks lie,<br>And every hillock represents and Angel in the sky.</blockquote>
  
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[[left margin]] He's gone.
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[right margin] He's gone.{
  
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[right margin] The entrance of the father{
  
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[[left margin]]The entrance of the father
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[right margin] The effect upon him{
  
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[[left margin]]The effect upon him
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[right margin] Resignation and hopeful request.{
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Him[?] within her breast.
Gently!
She is sleeping,
She has breathed her last,
Gently!
While you're weeping
She to heaven has pass'd.

And here are four lines of poetry that seem so truthful that I cannot hep transcribing them. The fair authoress has been walking in one of the large cemeteries where a particular spot is laid off for the burial of infants, and thinking o'er these Little Graves, she says:

There's many an empty cradle, there's many a
vacant bed,
There's many a lonely bosom, whose life and joy have
fled,
For thick in every graveyard the little hillocks lie,
And every hillock represents and Angel in the sky.

[right margin] He's gone.{

[right margin] The entrance of the father{

[right margin] The effect upon him{

[right margin] Resignation and hopeful request.{