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of all such delicacies that
had been seen. So you received
blessings unawares. I have
already got rid of my tenants
and taken possession of my
house, but have not reduced
my books & papers! to orders.

I labour day after day,
condemn hecatombs to flames,
but my task seems hardly
begun. But as Trollope's
man said - "It is dogged as
does it - "and I must dog on.

Our weather has been more
than usually of the finest, ie
without the interruption of two
or three very hot days now
& then in a summer. Certainly
we used not to have more
than about a dozen scattered