,
and so must answer with my own proper care and nursing for its
new life. Perhaps it is a great folly in me who have little
adroitness in turning off work to assume this sure vexation, but
the _Dial_ has certain charms to me as an opportunity, which I
grudge to destroy. Lately at New York I found it to be to a
certain class of men and women, though few, an object of
tenderness and religion. You cannot believe it?

Mr. Lee,* who brings you this letter, is the son of one of the
best men in Massachusetts, a man whose name is a proverb among
merchants for his probity, for his sense and his information.
The son, who bears his father's name, is a favorite among all the
young people for his sense and spirit, and has lived always with
good people.

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* Mr. Henry Lee.
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I have read at New York six out of eight lectures on the Times
which I read this winter in Boston. I found a very intelligent
and friendly audience. The penny papers reported my lectures,
somewhat to my chagrin when I tried to read them; many persons
came and talked with me, and I felt when I came away that New
York is open to me henceforward whenever my Boston parish is not
large enough. This summer, I must try to set in order a few more
chapters from these rambling lectures, one on "The Poet" and one
on "Character" at least. And now will you not tell me what you
read and write? Is it Cromwell still? For I supposed from the
_Westminster_ piece that the laborer must be in that quarter.

I send herewith a new _Dial,_ No. 8, and the last of this
dispensation. I hope you have received every number. They have
been sent in order. I have written no line in this Number. I
send a letter for Sterling, as I do not know whether his address
is still at Falmouth. Is he now a preacher? By the "Acadia" you
should have received a letter of exchange on the Barings, and
another on James Fraser's estate.

With constant good hope for yourself and for your wife, I am
your friend,

--R.W. Emerson

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