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| 1 | +As a reward for your reformation I write to you on this precious sheet.|write |
| 2 | +You see I have come to be wonderfully attached to Heidelberg, the|attached come see |
| 3 | +beautiful, the quaint, the historically poetic, learned and picturesque| |
| 4 | +old town on the Neckar. It seems like another home. So I could not show|seems show could |
| 5 | +my appreciation of you in a more complimentary way than by sending this|sending |
| 6 | +little series of pictures. Have you ever been here, I wonder? You did|did have been wonder |
| 7 | +not say, but you wrote as if you knew it by sight as well as by heart.|wrote say knew |
| 8 | +As I cannot know, I will venture an explanation. The panorama speaks for|know will speaks |
| 9 | +itself. Put on your "specs" and look at the castle, half way up the|put look |
| 10 | +_berg_, "the Jettenhuhl, a wooded spur of the Konigestuhl." Look at it|Look |
| 11 | +from the "Terrasse." Thus you'll get something of an idea of it. The|get |
| 12 | +Gesprente Thurm is the one that was blown up by the French. The|is blown was |
| 13 | +thickness of the walls, twenty-one feet, and the solid masonry, held it|held |
| 14 | +so well that only a fragment, as it were, gave way. It still hangs as if|were gave hangs |
| 15 | +ready to be replaced. "Das Grosse Fass Gebaude," too, you will have no|be replaced will have |
| 16 | +difficulty in making out. If you only had it with its 49,000 gallons of|making had |
| 17 | +wine, but wouldn't you divide with your neighbors! The columns in the|wouldn't divide |
| 18 | +portico that shows in the Schlosshof are the four brought from|shows are brought |
| 19 | +Charlemagne's palace at Ingelheim by the Count Palatine Ludwig, some| |
| 20 | +time between 1508-44. The Zum Ritter has nothing to do with the castle,|has do |
| 21 | +but is an ancient structure (1592) in the Renaissance style, and one of|is |
| 22 | +the few that escaped destruction in 1693. It is a beautiful, highly|escaped is |
| 23 | +ornamental building, and I wish you could see it, if you have not seen|wish could see have seen |
| 24 | +it.| |
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| 26 | +All the above information, I beg you to believe, I do not intend you|beg believe do intend |
| 27 | +to think was evolved from my inner consciousness, but gathered from|think was evolved gathered |
| 28 | +the--nearest guide-book!| |
| 29 | +| |
| 30 | +I am so much obliged to you for mapping out Switzerland to me. I have|am obliged have |
| 31 | +been trying my best to get all those "passes" into my brain. Now, thanks|been trying get |
| 32 | +to your letter, I have them all in the handiest kind of a bunch. Ariel|have |
| 33 | +like, "I'll do my bidding gently," and as surely, if I get there. But|do bidding get |
| 34 | +there are dreadful reports of floods and roads caved in and bridges|are caved |
| 35 | +swept away and snows and--enough of such exciting items as sets one|swept sets |
| 36 | +thinking--"to go or not to go?" We are this far on the way. Reached|thinking go go are Reached |
| 37 | +here this afternoon. Have spent the evening sauntering in the gardens,|Have spent sauntering |
| 38 | +the Conversationhaus, the bazaar, mingling with the throng, listening to|mingling listening |
| 39 | +the band, and comparing what it is with what it was. It was a gay and|comparing was was |
| 40 | +curious spectacle, but on the whole had "the banquet-hall deserted"|had deserted |
| 41 | +look. The situation is most beautiful. It lies, you know, at the|is lies know |
| 42 | +entrance of the Black Forest, among picturesque, thickly-wooded hills,| |
| 43 | +in the valley of the Oos, and extends up the slope of some of the hills.|extends |
| 44 | +The Oos is a most turbid, turbulent stream; dashes through part of the|is |
| 45 | +town with angry, headlong speed. There is an avenue along its bank of|is |
| 46 | +oaks, limes and maples, bordered with flower-beds and shrubberies, and| |
| 47 | +adorned with fountains and handsome villas. We shall devote to-morrow to| |
| 48 | +seeing all there is to be seen, and go to Strassburg to-morrow evening|seeing is be seen go |
| 49 | +for two or three days. From there to Constance, and then hold _our_| |
| 50 | +"Council" as to further movements.| |
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