You remember those beautiful lines out of our newspaper I sent you?
Well, Mr.Hopkins told me he wrote those lines in one evening without stopping! I wish you could see Mr.Hopkins,--he is a very talented person.

I cut out this little piece about him from the paper on purpose to show you,--for genius loves genius,--and you would like to hear him read his own poetry,--he reads it beautifully.

Please send this piece from the paper back, as I want to put it in my scrapbook, under his autograph:-- "Our young townsman, Mr.Gifted Hopkins, has proved himself worthy of the name he bears.

His poetical effusions are equally creditable to his head and his heart, displaying the highest order of genius and powers of imagination and fancy hardly second to any writer of the age.

He is destined to make a great sensation in the world of letters." Mrs.Hopkins is the same good soul she always was.