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 jsT.25.] TO R. W. EMERSON. 99

as the hawks fly over my own head. I am not attracted toward him but as to youth generally. He shall frequent me, however, as much as he can, and I 11 be I.

Bradbury l told me, when I passed through Boston, that he was coming to New York the following Saturday, and would then settle with me, but he has not made his appearance yet. Will you, the next time you go to Boston, pre sent that order for me which I left with you ?

If I say less about Waldo and Tappan now, it is, perhaps, because I may have more to say by and by. Remember me to your mother and Mrs. Emerson, who, I hope, is quite well. I shall be very glad to hear from her, as well as from you. I have very hastily written out something for the &quot; Dial,&quot; and send it only be cause you are expecting something, though something better. It seems idle and Howittish, but it may be of more worth in Concord, where it belongs. In great haste. Farewell.

1 Of the publishing house of Bradbury & Soden, in Boston, which had taken Nathan Hale s Boston Miscellany off his hands, and had published in it, with promise of payment, Tho- reau s Walk to Wachusett. But much time had passed, and the debt was not paid ; hence the lack of a &quot; shower of shil lings &quot; which the letter laments. Emerson s reply gives the first news of the actual beginning of Alcott s short-lived para dise at Fruitlands, and dwells with interest on the affairs of the rural and lettered circle at Concord.