almost immediately Mrs. H proposed to lend it to me. The other day I said I must go to Mrs. Barrett's to hear hers, and, lo! straightway Richard F sent me one for a present from Cambridge. It is a very good one. I should like to have you hear it. I shall not have to employ you to borrow for me now. Good night.
From your affectionate friend,
TO MRS. L. C. B.
Concord, Friday Evening,
Dear Friend:—
Mrs. E asks me to write you a letter, which she will put into her bundle to-morrow along with the Tribunes and Standards, and miscellanies, and what not, to make an assortment. But what shall I write. You live a good way off, and I don't know that I have anything which will bear sending so far. But I am mistaken, or rather impatient when I say this,—for we all have a gift to send, not only when the year begins, but as long as interest and memory last. I don't know whether you have got the many I have sent you, or rather whether you were quite sure where they came from. I mean the letters I have sometimes launched off eastward in my
