Your letter as usual was full of wisdom and has done me much good. Your visit here last fall did much to carry me well through the winter. I consider a visit from you a perfect benison, & hope that yon will get a good response for May. I must try to get a look at the old house during the spring,—I thank you for your kind invitation but I am already too much in debt to you. Should I visit Concord it must be in a way not to incommode your household I think I will set up a bed at once in the old house, to be kept as a kind of retreat for a few days at a time occasionally. I should have stated before that Channing and I have passed a word in relation to going to Concord together. So look out!

  I wish to know if you think my sketch of the Concord sage was right—if you received the paper.

  With kind remembrances to your family—Good night.

  I go to bed.

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