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Letter 2 June 1859, pages 1-5 (Transcriptions Done!)
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tinuation of bad weather puts me back in working my Mining Claims, for I had hoped to have worked them out, in time to get home, - or to what I now consider as almost a second home, - that is, to Salisbury, New Hampshire, in the season of sleigh rides. The state of mind super-induced by circumstances, as I said before causes the "gloomy" to fraternise readily with it, and thus you will see that my reading has been of the melancholy cast, and that though there is something of the melancholy in the following abstracts from various authors, yes there is likewise something of the beautiful in the poetry, that, like oil or troubled water, seems to calm down the tempest of disappointment within. It has always appeared