You and I can never
occult, for have we not always helped one another to shine? Do you have
Worcester's Dictionary? I read it continually. Did you feast on 'The
Marble Faun'? I have a charming letter from Una Hawthorne, herself a
poet by nature, all about 'papa's book.' Ought not Mr. Hawthorne to be
the happiest man alive? He isn't, though! Do save all the anecdotes you
possibly can, piquant or not; starved people are not over-nice.
LYNN, Jan. 5 [1864].
... I very rarely see the B----s; they go to a different church,
and you know with that class of people "not to be with us is to
be against us." Indeed, I know very little of Lynn people. If I
can get at Mr. J., when you come to see me I'll ask him to tea.
He has called several times, but he's in such demand that he
must be engaged some weeks in advance! Would you, if you lived
in Lynn, want to fall into such a mass of idolaters?
I was wretchedly busy up to December 31, but have got into quiet
seas again. I have had a great deal of company--not a person
that I did not want to see, but I can't make the days more than
twenty-four hours long, with all my economy of time. This week
Professor Crosby, of Salem, comes up with his graduating class
and his corps of teachers for an evening.
They remained in Lynn until Miss Mitchell was called to Vassar College,
in 1865, as professor of astronomy and director of the observatory.
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