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Before Sept 1
Wednesday Evening
(Yours to hand this morning. "Thursday". Will write you again on Sunday. Dont worry either, and be the happiest you know how. Nothing is so Bad but what it might be worse. Happy memories and jolly times Together ahead of us.)
My very dear Cousin
I know I ought to have written long ere this, but we have been kept so busy with the harvesting, etc, I've put off, and put off till now.
I think the letter I posted you on Friday - you'll have it to hand by this? - would prove sufficient answer for the letter I received from you Saturday and Monday morning. I've heard from you Tuesday and this morning also.
There are three other things I would like to say regarding yesterdays heart-felt epistle. Harry, you must not feel unhappy about me so far as my welfare in concerned. I am sufficiently content in every way to acquire a great deal of satisfaction from life, and, beyond occasional spells of loneliness, find my outlook pleasing enough. Again, do not be so foolish as to think yourself impossible from a social point of view. You are good, noble, tender, what more need a "human be. Were I a little less my strange unreasonable self doubtless I'd encourage your advances to a fuller purpose. Your show of affection was in nowise vulgar. I gloried in it, lad. And yet again, believe me, I will remember your tender words,