Thanks for your last letter, which I was glad to get. Am busy making an extract from Motley , including capture of Den Briel and siege of Haarlem, Alkmaar and Leiden, 3 have drawn a map to go with it, so as to complete it. It becomes no easier the further one gets in life, and it has been rightly said:. As we regard others so are we regarded by many eyes. Have bought from the Jew that lithograph after L. Old boy, Latin and Greek and studying are difficult, but all the same I feel very happy with it and am doing the things I have longed for.
Hope in the winter to light the fire early in the morning and while obeying Uncle yet letting the light shine in the night and darkness 26 once in a while.
Fill my soul with a holy bitterness that shall be agreeable to Thee, and I shall humbly spend all the years of my life in Thy service, in the bitterness of my soul, 28 yea, even in Thy Service, O Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
A person has needs, and requires strength and fortification to be able to work. You can see from my handwriting that it had grown dark, but now the lamp is on. May we all at sometime enter into that kingdom which is not of this world, 39 where they do not marry and are not given in marriage, 40 where the sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be an Everlasting Light, and God our glory, where the sun shall no more go down, neither shall the moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light, and the days of mourning shall be ended 41 and God shall wipe away all tears from the eyes.
Meyboom was visiting brother of Margreet , an officer in the Navy, 60 and his girlfriend and a young man, Middelbeek , 61 who has been in London for a while and is going back there. He gave me encouragement, however. I also cling to the church and to the bookshops, if I can think of an errand to do there I do it.
