| To us our house was not unsentient
matter--it had a heart & a soul & eyes to see us with, & approvals
& solicitudes & deep sympathies; it was of us, & we were in
its confidence, & lived in its grace & in the peace of its benediction.
We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up &
speak out its eloquent welcome--& we could not enter it unmoved. - Letter to Joseph Twichell, 19 January 1897 ...combination Mississippi River steamboat and cuckoo clock. It wouldn't do to call it "mongrel" for that would be offensive
to some. I guess we'll call it "eclectic"--the word describes
everything that can't be otherwise described. |
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