Milford, Mass,2 31st
Livy darling, the same old practising on audiences still goes on—the same old feeling of pulses & altering manner & matter to suit the symptoms. The very same lecture that convulsed Great Barrington was received with the gentlest & most well-bred smiles & rippling comfort by Milford. Now we’ll see what Boston is going to do. Boston must sit up & behave, & do right by me. As Boston goes, so goes New England.
I got no letters at Brattleboro. None a had come. None in the post office, either. No proofs from Bliss.3 Brattleboro is unreliable, I guess.
I didn’t write last night. Felt kind of beat out. To-day I traveled the entire day in piddling [trains ] that stopped every four or five minutes. P Am lazy, but not a bit tired—hot bath fetched me around handsomely. Saw Mrs. Lee’s [brother ] [tonight ] (we saw her at Gov. Hawley’s.)4
Read Eugene Aram all day—found it tedious—skipped 4 pages out of 5. Skipped the corporal all the time. He don’t amount to anything.5 World of love. Kiss mother & cubbie for
Samℓ.
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary



Previous publication:
L4, 483–484; LLMT, 162–63; Chester L. Davis 1977, 1, excerpt.
Provenance:
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
trains • [‘in’ conflated]
brother • brootther [canceled ‘t’ partly formed]
tonight • to-|night