0f one thing, my dear friend, I am certain: if the readers of thislittle journey could have during its persual the companionship thatthe writer had when it was made, they would think it altogetherdelightful. There is no pleasure comparable to that of going aboutthe world, in pleasant weather, with a good comrade, if the mind isdistracted neither by care, nor ambition, nor the greed of gain. Thedelight there is in seeing things, without any hope of pecuniaryprofit from them! We certainly enjoyed that inward peace which thephilosopher associates with the absence of desire for money. For, asPlato says in the Phaedo, "whence come wars and fightings andfactions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the body? Forwars are occasioned by the love of money." So also are the majorityof the anxieties of life. We left these behind when we went into theProvinces with no design of acquiring anything there. I hope it maybe my fortune to travel further with you in this fair world, undersimilar circumstances.

N00K FARM, HARTF0RD, April 10, 1874.