to us during her pure
brief life, and afterwards, by her father's fulfillment of her last
wishes, you shall hear at another time."--_Fors Clavigera_, vol.
viii.]

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TO MISS BEEVER.

_10th January, 1883._

I cannot tell you how grateful and glad I am, to have your lovely note
and to know that the Bewick gave you pleasure, and that you are so
entirely well now, as to enjoy anything requiring so much energy and
attention to this degree. For indeed I can scarcely now take pleasure
myself in things that give me the least trouble to look at, but I know
that the pretty book and its chosen wood-cuts ought to be sent to you,
first of all my friends (I have not yet thought of sending it to any
one else), and I am quite put in heart after a very despondent
yesterday, passed inanely, in thinking of what I _couldn't_ do, by
feeling what you _can_, and hoping to share the happy Christmas time
with you and Susie in future years. Will you please tell my dear Susie
I'm going to bring over a drawing to show! (so thankful that I am
still able to draw after these strange and terrible illnesses) this
afternoon. I am in hopes it may clear, but dark or bright I'm coming,
about half past three, and am ever your and her most affectionate and
faithful servant.

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_24th September, 1884._

I wandered literally "up and down" your mountain garden--(how
beautifully the native rocks slope to its paths in the sweet evening
light, Susiesque light!)--with great happiness and admiration, as I
went home, and I came indeed upon what I conceived to be--discovered
in the course of recent excavations--two deeply interesting thrones of
the ancient Abbots of Furness, typifying their humility in that the
seats thereof were only level with the ground between two clusters of
the earth; contemplating cyclamen, and their severity of penance, in
the points of stone prepared for the mortification of their backs; but
truly, Susie's seat of repose and meditation I was unable as yet to
discern, but propose to myself further investigation of that
apple-perfumed paradise, and am ever your devoted and enchanted

[Transcriber's Note: no ending to the sentence here.]

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OXFORD, _1st December_ (1884).

I gave my fourteenth, and last f