Tell Helen there are two schools of late established in the neighborhood, with large prospects, or rather designs, one for boys and another for girls. The latter by a Miss Errington, and though it is only small as yet, I will keep my ears open for her in such directions. The encouragement is very slight.
I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.
Tell Mother I think my cold was not wholly owing to imprudence. Perhaps I was being acclimated.
Tell Father that Mr. Tappan, whose son I know,—and whose clerks young Tappan and Waldo are,—has invented and established a new and very important business, which Waldo thinks would allow them to burn ninety-nine out of one hundred of the stores in New York, which now only offset and cancel one another. It is a kind of intelligence office for the whole country, with branches in the principal cities, giving information with regard to the credit and affairs of every man of business of the country. Of course it is not popular at the South and West. It is an extensive business and will employ a great many clerks.
Love to all—not forgetting Aunt and Aunts—and Miss and Mrs. Ward.
On the 23d of May he wrote from Castleton to his sister Helen thus:—
Dear Helen,—In place of something fresher, I send you the following verses from my Journal, written some time ago:—
Brother, where dost thou dwell?
What sun shines for thee now?
Dost thou indeed fare well