—I believe I have named all the necessaries of life.
June 15th.
Ihave scooped myself out a bathtub below the spring. I forgot towels in my list of necessaries! I fear it will be inconvenient on rainy days. I am like a child with a new toy, in my wonderful home. I was too excited to think of working. I fried an egg overa little fire,and then I roamed all about the woods. I don’t remember ever having been so happy before. I had forgotten there was anything beautiful in the world.—
—I spent the whole of the afternoon dreaming a dream. When I have finished The Captive and gotten some money, I am going to have a little house in the woods! I have just had it before my eyes—and I laughed with delight like a boy.
It will be a fine big house—it will cost about fifty dollars; and there will be a
