Bloodroots

I must write of this some other time.

In this first walk I found Eriginia, which here is ever first, and sweet little violets, and Sanguinaria, and isopyrum too, and thalictrum and eminoides were almost ready to venture their faces to the sky.

The red maple was in full flower glory, the leaves below and the mosses were bright with its fallen scarlet blossoms, and the elm too was in flower, and the earliest willows, all this when your fields had scarce the memory of a flower left in them.

will not try to tell you how much i enjoyed in this walk after four weeks in bed you can feel it indianapolis june ninth eighteen sixty seven i have been looking over your letters and am sorry that so many of them are unanswered my debt to you has been increasing very rapidly of late and i don't think it can ever be paid i am not well enough to work and i cannot sit still I have been reading and botanizing for some weeks, and I find that for such work I am very much disabled.