Though she went to the South to live, she never could bear to sever entirely her relations with Richmond Hill.

It is a curious fact that everyone who ever lived there loved it best of all the places in the world.
One year after her marriage Theo came on to New York for a visit--I suppose she stopped at her father's town house, since it was in spring, and before the country places would naturally be open.

At all events it was during this visit that, fresh from her rice fields (which never agreed with her), she wrote in a letter: "...

I have just returned from a ride in the country and a visit to Richmond Hill.

Never did I behold this island so beautiful.