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].
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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.