Writings by Susan Dickinson: Correspondence with Bishop Huntington

	June 15, '96. My dear Susan - The President has lately written, urging me to be present. I had not expected to go till Wednesday from here, having a duty away from home Monday evening. With some effort I have made an arrangement wh., I hope, will bring me to the Farm Tuesday night. I was not aware that
	my office with the alumni required anything of me this year. If Austin were there I sh'd not have been left in the dark. If I am in the choir[chair?] at all, it will be only at the short morning business session. At that time any extended speech w'd be out of place. I sh'd, however, be glad to make known there some- thing of my special
	esteem + affection for one of my best + truest friends, + to mention one or two signal traits in his Strong Character, - the more so if it w'd oblige you, dear Susan, + Mattie + Edward. I hope to have some lovely times on y'r piazza yet. Faithfully + affectionately always, F.D.Huntington [left margin:] Reading, the other day,
	Ruskin's "Hortus Inclulus" I came upon this- "I can't write any more this morning"(to his friend Susan Reezer[?]) "Oh me, if one c'd only write + draw all one wanted, + have our Susies, + be young again, ourself + they! As if there were two Susies, or could be! Even my one Susie's very loving, J.R." Elsewhere he mentions Ingleborough's[?] being "de- pressd" because Susan sent her "rememberances + not her love to him."
Papers of Susan Dickinson, Box II, Series A, Brown University Libraries	[envelope] ADDRESSED TO: Mrs. Susan H. Dickinson - Amherst Mass. POSTMARK: Syracuse Jun 15 10 AM


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