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Watson, Libbie L. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

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-Titusville Pa March 9th/ 69
+whenever my footsteps ... that way. So I come to you this bright spring morning, fearing something . ... already feeling the sunshine of your spirit stealing into my heart, just as I have felt it so many times before! I cannot tell you how indolent and ... I have been all these months in which the sweet miracle of motherhood has been going on, silently, yet breathing of music and immortality! I hope this condition of rest will not prove harmful and that I may begin to feel the intellectual ecstasy which stirs my innermost soul when under the holy ... of the pure Angels for I would have this new Embodiment of wedded love bear the image of a divine life, so inlinked with our own that we earnest feel it separate, even though there may be times that we do not perceive its positive presence. Now marvellously delicate are the laws governing these
-Mrs Amy Post,
-My Ever Dear Friend
-I was so unwell after I saw you, and especially just before leaving Rochester, but it was impossible to visit any of my friends to say goodbye but I said to myself, "I will write Mrs Post immediately after my arrival home." And here it is March, and my promise unfulfilled! But you were ever one of my most indulgent friends, covering with your sweet charity a multitude of shortcomings that many might consider unpardonable sins, and showing a smiling face

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whenever my footsteps ... that way. So I come to you this bright spring morning, fearing something . ... already feeling the sunshine of your spirit stealing into my heart, just as I have felt it so many times before! I cannot tell you how indolent and ... I have been all these months in which the sweet miracle of motherhood has been going on, silently, yet breathing of music and immortality! I hope this condition of rest will not prove harmful and that I may begin to feel the intellectual ecstasy which stirs my innermost soul when under the holy ... of the pure Angels for I would have this new Embodiment of wedded love bear the image of a divine life, so inlinked with our own that we earnest feel it separate, even though there may be times that we do not perceive its positive presence. Now marvellously delicate are the laws governing these