“Cottage for a Clergyman” is a fictional letter addressed to an architect from a clergyman in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1842. It appears in Peacock Journal, LINK. Dedicated to beauty, the online journal posts beautiful art with each poem and story.
Robert Boucheron 
Lovely letter, and accompanying print of The Oxbow by Thomas Cole.
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Thanks for identifying the painting, 1836, a view near Northampton.
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Dear Bob,
Thank you; a very nice piece. It puts me in mind of “The Countryman’s Year” by David Grayson, a lovely book published in 1936 and set in central Massachusetts, near my alma mater of Amherst College and not far from the Horseshoe Bend of the Connecticut River near Northampton. I recommend it to you.
Fred
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