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Samuel Calvin letters, May-August 1864
1864-08-30 Page 2
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as to be dismissed from the hospital, though still unable for duty. Was glad to learn that the prospects of the school are good. for the coming term. Have not yet found out who are to constitute the faculty, but no doubt good teachers are engaged. Prof Allen, I hope and believe, will be one, but who are to be the others? I suppose of course you teach drawing and painting. I have not done anything in the way of sketching: material and opportunities for that being scarce, but I have carefully stored away, in a vacant corner of my mind, a number of scenes and events which I intend some time to commit to paper with a pen, should a good oppertunity present itself. Still the world will loose but little, should the oppertunity never come, and the scenes never be transferred to paper. This country is almost entirely devoid of anything picturesque. The country is nearly level, the soil being formed by successive layers of sediment,-- clay and sand --, that has been deposited by an ocean of water that has at some time submerged the whole of the Western and southern States, and which sweeping southward carried with it the clay and
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as to be dismissed from the hospital, though still unable for duty. Was glad to learn that the prospects of the school are good. for the coming term. Have not yet found out who are to constitute the faculty, but no doubt good teachers are engaged. Prof Allen, I hope and believe, will be one, but who are to be the others? I suppose of course you teach drawing and painting. I have not done anything in the way of sketching: material and opportunities for that being scarce, but I have carefully stored away, in a vacant corner of my mind, a number of scenes and events which I intend some time to commit to paper with a pen, should a good oppertunity present itself. Still the world will loose but little, should the oppertunity never come, and the scenes never be transferred to paper. This country is almost entirely devoid of anything picturesque. The country is nearly level, the soil being formed by successive layers of sediment,-- clay and sand --, that has been deposited by an ocean of water that has at some time submerged the whole of the Western and southern States, and which sweeping southward carried with it the clay and
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