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 92 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,

still from reading the poets, and that her con stellation is not quite set from my sight, though it is sunk so low in that northern horizon. Tell Elizabeth Hoar that her bright present did &quot; carry ink safely to Staten Island,&quot; and was a conspicuous object in Master Haven s inventory of my effects. Give my respects to Madam Emerson, whose Concord face I should be glad to see here this summer ; and remember me to the rest of the household who have had vision of me. Shake a day-day to Edith, and say good night to Ellen for me. Farewell.

TO R. W. EMERSON (AT CONCORD).

CASTLETON, STATEN ISLAND, May 23.

MY DEAR FKIEND, I was just going to write to you when I received your letter. I was wait ing till I had got away from Concord. I should have sent you something for the &quot; Dial &quot; before, but I have been sick ever since I came here, rather unaccountably, what with a cold, bron chitis, acclimation, etc., still unaccountably. I send you some verses from my journal which will help make a packet. I have not time to correct them, if this goes by Rockwood Hoar. If I can finish an account of a winter s walk in Concord, in the midst of a Staten Island sum mer, not so wise as true, I trust, I will send it to you soon.