_ Early Letters To John S. Dwight
       Chapter XXXVI
       CONCORD, July 14th, '46, Sunday night.
       My dear Friend,--I have just returned from Almira's, who sends her love, and will be very happy to see you. I have written Mr. Hawthorne to go to Monadnock with me this week, but I suppose his duties will prevent. If I go I shall probably return before Sunday, as that is John Brown's working day, and we shall stay with him.
       The night was glorious as I came from Almira's. The late summer twilight held the stars at bay; and in the meadows the fire-flies were flitting everywhere. Suddenly in the north, directly before me, began the flashings of the aurora--piles of splendor, a celestial colonnade to the invisible palace. It is a fitting close for a day so soft and beautiful. We took a long sauntering walk this morning and found the mountain laurel, which is very rare here.
       I have been busy all my afternoons reading Roman history. Niebuhr and Arnold are fine historians. They are such wise, sincere men and scholars. I sit at the western door of the barn, looking across a meadow and rye-field to a group of pines beyond. My eye fixes upon some point in the landscape which constantly grows more beautiful, winning my eyes from the rest, until they gradually slide along, finding each as pleasant until the whole has a separate and individual beauty like a fall whose expressions you know intimately. It is a "Summer of Summers," as Lizzie Curzon writes me, and I am glad that my last hours in my own country will be so consecrated by beauty in my memory.
       Burrill goes again to the Hudson to see Mr. Downing on Thursday. He will remain a week, I suppose, and go again to New York in August, when I sail.
       Let me have my answer in person, for so short and poor a letter does not deserve the exclusive attention of writing.
       Remember me kindly to all at Brook Farm, to Wm. Channing particularly, if he is there.
       Your friend ever,
       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