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introductory pieces, aloud to my wife, and she agrees with me in admiring them. I would like to make a notice of the book for the " Transcript," or some other Boston paper. I shall want to make some extracts, and it will facilitate my purpose if you can give me some loose sneets of the book from the binder, as I cannot think of marring my own copy. I was sorry that I was not at home when you called. It will give me pleasure to see you at my house in Roxbury whenever it is in your power to make me a visit. Should you be able to let me have some of the loose sheets, let your publishers send them to me at Phil- lips, Sampson & Co.'s, 13 Winter St. Believe me, with sincere regard.

Your friend,

Epes Sargent, J. W. Randall, Esq.

Boston.

��Rev. Dr. Ephraim Peabody, minister of King's Chapel, Boston, who, although not himself an author, was as widely admired for his literary taste as he was deeply venerated for his personal character, thus expressed to the poet his appreciation of the "Consolations of Solitude" : —

54 Chambers St., Jan. 11, 1856. My dear Sir,

I cannot better express the pleasure which I have re- ceived from your volume than by saying that, with the exception of one or two pieces, I read the whole of it on the evening I received it, and parts of it twice, and with more gratification the second time than the first. I am delighted with your descriptions of nature, especially " As- sabet Brook and River," "The Mountain Journey," and

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