YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of the 4hExpanded:th inst I received To dayCorrected:Today, & was pleased to hear from you once again. I had been waiting for the letter from you and it seems you was waiting on me. Could I just breathe in an under toneCorrected:undertone. "Sarah", and out of the dream landCorrected:dreamland call you to my bed, do you not think we would chat busily for a little? yes, & live over again a thunder-stormCorrected:thunderstorm tete a teteCorrected:tête-à-tête! was not I lover-likeCorrected:lover like then to "embrace" you, ieCorrected:i.e., to call you up in night gownCorrected:nightgown to keep your eyes staring wide while I nestled to your side in "tremula tremendo"? —

But Sarah, I can write to you all I could say if present. I never fear committing obscure history— (if it is truth-) to the fair page of a letter. I would like to hear from the two lunatics or those possessed of error, viz Gale & Webster— ieCorrected:i.e., I would like to hear they had been clothed anew with better thoughts, with better deeds, & with higer Corrected: higher aims in life. Sarah dear, You named in your last but this Mrs. B [?] Unclear or illegible s impressions for me and thought she thought, or rather you thought she thought that I needed discipline, but you thought it was a more entire trust in God Now My dear, if you both could understand the spiritual or rather the scientific sense of the 9.th Chap of Luke you would see My life in its truer meaning I am very grateful to you all for your kind care of me but my heavenly father "feedeth me." Your desire, dear s Sarah, to become purified of self, is a good one and a great one to attain; your prayer will never be answered, but your labor certainly will.

In your choice of friends I hope you will ever be fortunate; the two I have brought to your notice, viz, Richard and Gale, are opposites, the first you will ever find what I described him to be, the last you will ever find what I have not described her to be.

Sarah, I have tried earnestly but in vain to procure a volume of poetry in which there are contributions of my own but the work "Gems for You" which I intended to send you I can notCorrected:cannot find. When next Dickey is here I will send you some trifling memento Now Sarah, this letter you may let my Dickey read for one until I write him, I have so much of neglected correspondence on hand to answer at present.

My friends have been getting me out here in rather a laconic style, you know I seldom go unless driven and they have been giving parties for me of late I attended one last eve and the evening previous— great style and much humor on both occasions. The two villages are very pleasant and nice people are here, but Sarah, I am going to say what none but you and Dick must know at .Ames.Editorial Note: Amesbury, Massachusetts ieCorrected:i.e., I am going West this fall. I think it will be better than for me to wait until spring. I want a student at work, I am torn asunder almost by requests to heal the sick and somehow they keep me at it continually, this is all the way I can escape. I can go there and [?] Unclear or illegible  [*]Gap: letters.Reason: page cut.ach, have my travelling expenses all paid, and a pleasant board at a fashionable and excellent Hotel as recommended and it will be much easier for me than to build my own fires and toil through a hard winter here. Mrs. Wentworth says whenever I name it she feels like fainting, cant Corrected: can't spare me. But I only have Dickey to consult on this, and he will agree with me, in thinking it is best In the case of Mr Winslows Corrected: Winslow's family I have only to shut my eyes & ears or they will keep me from going You at Ames.Expanded:Amesbury . will not miss me.