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not be dismissed so easily. He may be unjust or
unreasonable, but certainly not from selfish motives:
there is a higher nature in this man, and I must see
more of him and understand him better. For the rest,
may this acquaintance end as it will; I shall remain
calm. "If we are kindred, we shall meet!" and if
not–the time has long since passed when I desired
much to please people (in such matters).
Harvard College, Cambridge, December 15. I wrote to
you lately from Boston. I stayed there several days
with my friends, the Springs, amid an incessant shower
both of visits and engagements, which sometimes amused
me and sometimes drove me half to desperation and left
me scarcely time to breathe. A few of these days and
hours I shall always remember with pleasure. Among
them is a morning when I saw around me the noblest men
of Massachusetts: Alcott, the Platonic idealist, with
a remarkably handsome silver-haired head; the brothers
Clarke; the philanthropist, Mr. Barnard; the poet,
Longfellow; the young true American poet, Lowell (a
perfect Apollo in appearance) and many others. Emerson
came also, with a sunbeam in his strong countenance;
and people more beautiful in form (almost all of them
tall and well-proportioned) it would not be easy to
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