I trust that you may be attracted to this neighborhood.
Yours very truly,
S. E. Thoreau.
P. S. I received, by to-day's mail, a very appreciative notice of my brother from the pen of Storrow Higginson, formerly a pupil in Mr. Sanborn's school. I think the article would interest you. It is contained in the May number of the "Harvard Magazine." In the "Atlantic Monthly" for August you may look for a memorial by Mr. Emerson.
"He considered perfect disease as agreeable as perfect health, since the mind always conformed to the condition of the body." Where is there a more memorable observation? One month before, Sophia had written to Mr. Ricketson: "You ask me for
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