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 132 YEARS OF DISCIPLINE. [1843,

ting in front of a hotel in Broadway, very much as if he were under his father s stoop. He is seeking to be admitted into the bar in New York, but as yet had not succeeded. I directed him to Fuller s store, which he had not found, and in vited him to come and see me if he came to the island. Tell Mrs. and Miss Ward that I have not forgotten them, and was glad to hear from George with whom I spent last night that they had returned to C. Tell Mrs. Brown that it gives me as much pleasure to know that she thinks of me and my writing as if I had been the author of the piece in question, but I did not even read over the papers I sent. The &quot; Mirror &quot; is really the most readable journal here. I see that they have printed a short piece that I wrote to sell, in the &quot; Dem. Review,&quot; and still keep the review of &quot; Paradise,&quot; that I may include in it a notice of another book by the same author, which they have found, and are going to send me.

I don t know when I shall come home ; I like to keep that feast in store. Tell Helen that I do not see any advertisement for her, and I am looking for myself. If I could find a rare open ing, I might be tempted to try with her for a year, till I had paid my debts, but for such I am sure it is not well to go out of New Eng land. Teachers are but poorly recompensed,