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 JET. 37.] TO HARRISON BLAKE. 289

A young 1 Englishman, Mr. Cholmondeley, is just now waiting for me to take a walk with him ; therefore excuse this very barren note from yours, hastily at last.

TO HARRISON BLAKE.

CONCORD, December 22, 1854.

MR. BLAKE, I will lecture for your Lyceum on the 4th of January next ; and I hope that I shall have time for that good day out of doors. Mr. Cholmondeley is in Boston, yet perhaps I may invite him to accompany me. I have en gaged to lecture at New Bedford on the 26th hist., stopping with Daniel Ricketson, three miles out of town ; and at Nantucket on the 28th, so that I shall be gone all next week. They say there is some danger of being weather bound at Nantucket ; but I see that others run the same risk. You had better acknowledge the receipt of this at any rate, though you should write nothing else ; otherwise I shall not know whether you get it; but perhaps you will not wait till you have seen me, to answer my letter (of December 19). I will tell you what I think of lecturing when I see you. Did you see the notice of &quot; Walden &quot; in the last &quot; Anti-Slavery Standard &quot; ? You will not be surprised if I tell you that it reminded me of you.