Yours of latest dateEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I shall seize a flitting hour to reply to this beautiful morning. I believe it has not remained unanswered as long as mine did.

These golden Autumn days are very beautiful here, and the sweet scenee has no jarring element to destroy the music of the spheres.

We'll worship mid these rural scenes
That God to us hath given,
And breathe the pure untainted air,
Fresh from the upper heaven,
And strive through all the walks of life
Love's labor to increase;
Such "ways are ways of pleasantness,"
And all her "paths are peace".Prov 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

You ask if I have visited Dr. Emerson of BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts? no, I have not made a single visit, have not been to Boston except to pass through it. I have not been to LynnEditorial Note: Lynn, Massachusetts yet. I was not able to go until recently and now I am about my Master'sEditorial Note: Jesus Christ business ieCorrected:i.e., I am writing and don't know when I shall go. My dear aged friend Mrs. Phillips has died recently, so I am informed through Mr. Winslow. I have not even seen him yet, but I receive such kind and comforting letters from them it does me great good. I received your last letter after a day of great affliction, I had been looking over the past and comparing it with the present, had been saying "why does not Sa write, and tell me about the cottage they were to engage for me" and then came the question, where am I to stop this Winter? I had thought of no other place but the one we had already arranged and hence I was in the uncertain state that requires more patience than great affliction from the All Merciful who chastens in loveHeb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. . After I had retired early, filled with neuralgia, for I brought that along, dear Mrs Wentworth (as dear Sarah has done) came to my room looking so pleased, saying, "here is a letter that I hope will comfort you"—

—They are anxious to have me spend the winter here & board with them as I am doing at present. I have a large pleasant room with trees in front of my window and a horse to take me to ride and they always invite me but it is bad for me because one of the family are is liable to severe attacks of sickness. I have had to take them out of one already and so I have no home of rest yet. Please give much love to Mrs Baily and tell me when you write her P. O. address and I will write her. Give much love to your Mother and to Ann tell her I would like to see her "run in" as usual. I am frequently with you at the homestead you have not seen me but once have you?