_ Early Letters To John S. Dwight
       Chapter XXXV
       CONCORD, June 29, '46.
       My dear Friend,--I had hoped that you would have come to Concord yesterday, because to-morrow early I leave, and shall be here only one day more, towards the close of the next week. I had not expected to have gone so soon, but I shall accompany a sick friend to Saratoga by slow stages, and, returning to Worcester, make a short visit among my kindred there, and then return to Concord to take my final departure. I shall try to secure some day about that time to come to Brook Farm, if only to say farewell to you; but just now I cannot specify the day.
       My trip to Monadnock was very beautiful. The minister, Jno. Brown, is the same Brook Farmer in a black coat; and I enjoyed a few days at his house exceedingly. I wrote a long journal while there, and cannot say anything about it here, therefore.
       This afternoon I have answered Isaac's letter which I received during the winter. With great modesty I attempted to show him how, in the nature of things, proselyting was hopeless, at least upon any who are really worth converting. But the tone, like my feeling, was friendly and gentle. If it does not change his course towards me, he will better understand my feeling and position, for I told him that in men of his nature and tendency the zeal of proselytism is a part of the fervor of sentiment, and therefore I expected and willingly accepted his exhortations, and only deplored them as a loss of time and misuse of opportunities of communication. The Roman Church was such an unavoidable goal for Isaac that one who knows him well cannot possibly grieve to see him prostrate before the altar, and ought to understand and anticipate what was called his arrogance, which is a necessary portion of the sentiment and position.
       The review of Mr. Hawthorne's book in the last Harbinger is delicately appreciative. The introductory chapter is one of the softest, clearest pictures I know in literature. His feeling is so deep, and so unexaggerated, that it is a profoundly subtle interpreter of life to him, and the pensiveness which throws such a mellow sombreness upon his imagination is only the pensiveness which is the shadow of extreme beauty. There is no companion superior to him in genial sympathy with human feeling. He seems to me no less a successful man than Mr. Emerson, although at the opposite end of the village.
       For a week or two, if you write, continue to address me at Concord, and believe me, in constant unitary feeling,
       Your friend,
       G.W.C. _

Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Intro
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 1
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 2
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 3
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 4
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 5
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 6
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 7
Early Letters To John S. Dwight
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 1
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 2
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 3
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 4
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 5
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 6
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 7
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 8
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 9
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 10
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 11
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 12
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 13
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 14
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 15
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 16
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 17
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 18
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 19
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 20
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 21
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 22
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 23
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 24
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 25
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 26
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 27
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 28
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 29
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 30
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 31
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 32
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 33
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 34
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 35
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 36
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 37
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 38
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 39
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 40
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 41
Letters Of Later Date
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 1
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 2
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 3
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 4
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 5
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 6
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 7
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 8
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 9
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 10
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 11
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 12
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 13
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 14
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 15
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 16
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 17
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 18
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 19
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 20
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 21