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James B. Weaver letters to Clara Vinson, 1856-1858
1858-04-02 Page 01
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Bloomfield Iowa April 2nd 1858. Dear Clara:- Your note of the 1st inst was duly received, and above all the letters I ever received from you, I prize it the highest. For the last three years I have been reading (at leasure hours) as a source of consolation, the literature of love. I have lestened to its minstrelsy. But these did not afford me much solace. For although Byron, Burns, & Moore have sung very enchantingly; and although they appear to have drank deeper at that fountain from whence the muses quaff the elixer and sublimity of poetic beauty, than all the bards that ever sung, yet they were only recording the feelings of other hearts. The minstrelsy which they awoke, only sung of an others love. But now I have words from your own lips,
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Bloomfield Iowa April 2nd 1858. Dear Clara:- Your note of the 1st inst was duly received, and above all the letters I ever received from you, I prize it the highest. For the last three years I have been reading (at leasure hours) as a source of consolation, the literature of love. I have lestened to its minstrelsy. But these did not afford me much solace. For although Byron, Burns, & Moore have sung very enchantingly; and although they appear to have drank deeper at that fountain from whence the muses quaff the elixer and sublimity of poetic beauty, than all the bards that ever sung, yet they were only recording the feelings of other hearts. The minstrelsy which they awoke, only sung of an others love. But now I have words from your own lips,
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