The brevity that I promised you will not find in this letter, but you will find haste enough to make up for the lack of it.
If now, after the foregoing, you feel any inclination to send me the essay on "Analogy" (capital subject), pray do so. I will read it, and if I have anything to say about it, will speak as frankly as above.
I shall be in this place—Groveland, Mass.—about three weeks; after that in Worcester a short while.
Very truly yours,
DAVID A. WASSON.
Groveland, Mass., June 18, 1862.
Mr. Burroughs,—
My Dear Sir,—
I am sorry to have detained your MS. so long, but part of the time I have been away, and during the other portion of it, the fatigue that I must undergo was all that my strength would bear.
I read your essay carefully in a few days after receiving it and laid it aside for a second perusal. Now I despair of finding time for such a second reading as I designed, and so must write you at once my impressions after a single reading.