Stowe notes, letters and verses . EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS 1882-1896. z EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER Nantucket, August 5, 1882. Nantucket I really like; there is a great deal that isattractive about it; but when in your description of thesunset at Mohonk you spoke of the tall pine trees, theabsolute lack of such scenery all summer struck mequite forcibly. The other night we had a most magnificent effecthere—the aurora. Imagine a mass of dark clouds lyingupon the horizon, and from behind them sTiafts of lightstretching up to the centre of the sky, the stars shiningin them—that was how it lo
Stowe notes, letters and verses . EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS 1882-1896. z EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER Nantucket, August 5, 1882. Nantucket I really like; there is a great deal that isattractive about it; but when in your description of thesunset at Mohonk you spoke of the tall pine trees, theabsolute lack of such scenery all summer struck mequite forcibly. The other night we had a most magnificent effecthere—the aurora. Imagine a mass of dark clouds lyingupon the horizon, and from behind them sTiafts of lightstretching up to the centre of the sky, the stars shiningin them—that was how it looked at first, but in a littlewhile the whole northern sky was pulsating like an enor-mous fire. This town is really very quaint. I am at work (inthe afternoon) upon a study of some old houses I seefrom my window. In the mornings I paint in a mostdelightful old orchard, where the trees are quite mar-vellously twisted and old. I grow more certain every day that the mountainsare to me much more delightful than the seaside. TO HIS SISTER Stowe, July 9,
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