How I wish I could be with you, enjoying what I have
always longed for--fine people, fine amusements, and fine books. But
as I can't, I am glad you are; for I love to see your name first among
the lecturers, to hear it kindly spoken of in papers and inquired about
by good people here--to say nothing of the delight and pride I take in
seeing you at last filling the place you are so fitted for, and which
you have waited for so long and patiently. If the New Yorkers raise a
statue to the modern Plato, it will be a wise and highly creditable
action.
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I am very well and very happy. Things go smoothly, and I think I shall
come out right, and prove that though an _Alcott_ I _can_ support
myself. I like the independent feeling; and though not an easy life,
it is a free one, and I enjoy it. I can't do much with my hands; so I
will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this
rough-and-tumble world. I have very pleasant lectures to amuse my
evenings--Professor Gajani on "Italian Reformers," the Mercantile
Library course, Whipple, Beecher, and others, and, best of all, a free
pass at the Boston Theatre.
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