Y me; these many weeks I have felt always that it deserved and demA treatise by [email protected]O mend. Webster, a good man and as strong as if he were a sinner, begins
to find himself the centre of a great and enlarging party and his
eloquence incarnated and enacted by them; yet men dare not hope that the
majority shall be suddenly unseated. I send herewith a volume of
Webster's that you may see his speech on Foot's Resolutions, a speech
which the Americans have never done praising. I have great doubts
whether the book reaches you, as I know not my agents. I shall put with
it the little book of my Swedenborgian druggist,* of whom I told you.
And if, which is hardly to be hoped, any good book should be thrown out
of our vortex of trade and politics, I shall not fail to give it the
same direction. -------------- * _Observations on the Growth of the
Mind,_ by Sampson Reed, first published in 1825. A fifth edition of this
thoughtful little treatise was published in 1865. Mr. Reed was a
graduate of Harvard College in 1818; he died in 1880, at the age of
eighty. --------------- I need not tell you, my dear sir, what pleasure
a letter from you would give me when you have a few moments to spare to
so remote a friend. If any word in my letter should provoke you to a
reply, I shall rejoice in my sauciness. I am spending the summer in the
country, but my address is Boston, care of Barnard, Adams, & Co. Care of
O. Rich, London. Please do make my affectionate respects to Mrs.
Carlyle, whose kindness I shall always gratefully remember. I depend
upon her intercession to insure your writing to me. May God grant you
both his best blessing. Your friend,
