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The Christmas card you sent me has been in a frame, and sitting on my chiffonnier, in a good light, for so many weeks, that I think I ought to tell how much
pleasure it has given me. I find it wears better than most of the pictures we3 have
about the apartment4. Some seventeenth
century English poet5 said he liked best those
things which won him "by just proportion and
admission true."6