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ing one on another as the affections turned towards them or were touched and saddened or soothed by them ! I know not where I have met with anything of the kind which has so deeply, yet so gently moved me. I may not stay to play the critic now, but only to request you to thank your brother in my name for the pleasure he has given me — the kind oi pleasure. With great esteem,

Richard H. Dana. 43 Chestnut St., Feb. 15th, 1856.

��Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to the poet himself as

follows : —

Concord, ii Sept. 1856. My DEAR Sir,

I thank you heartily for your kind gift of the Poems, so truly named, and so truly written. I had borrowed them of Elizabeth Hoar, and read them with much interest, as celebrating places and experiences which are mine also ; and I pleased myself that, some day, our walks might meet — you at the extreme of your ramble and I at the extreme of mine. I sent E. H. some note of what I found in the book. Now I shall keep it by me for the weather and mood that require it. I have no verses to send you in re- turn, but shall ask my publisher to send you a copy of my "English Notes," and, if the prose is extreme, I hope you will lay it to the necessities of the theme. With great

regard, yours,

R. W. Emerson. Mr. Randall,

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