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mountains is more memorable than any other. Have you been to Squam Lake or overlooked it? I should think that you could make an excursion to some mountain in that direction from which you could see the lake and mountains generally. Is there no friend of N. P. Kogers who can tell you where the &quot; lions &quot; are ?

Of course I did not go to North Elba, 1 but I sent some reminiscences of last fall. I hear that John Brown, Jr., has now come to Boston for a few days. Mr. Sanborn s case, it is said, will come on after some murder cases have been dis posed of here.

I have just been invited formally to be pres ent at the annual picnic of Theodore Parker s society (that was), at Waverley, next Wednes day, and to make some remarks. But that is wholly out of my line. I do not go to picnics, even in Concord, you know.

Mother and Aunt Sophia rode to Acton in time yesterday. I suppose that you have heard that Mr. Hawthorne has come home. I went to meet him the other evening and found that he has not altered, except that he was looking quite

1 He was invited to a gathering- of John Brown s friends at the grave in the Adirondac woods. &quot; Mr. Sanborn s case &quot; was an indictment and civil suit against Silas Carleton et als. for an attempt to kidnap F. B. Sanborn, who had refused to accept the invitation of the Senate at Washington to testify in the John Brown investigation.