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  Goodby poor old '88! Hurra for 89!

This morning arrived your post card of 28th your letter enclosing Kennedy's of 29th and the "Springfield Repn for all which thanks. Yesterday I read over again (for the 3d 4th or 5th time) "A Backward Glance" and "Elias Hicks" and dipped into a lot of other old favorites in the big Volume. Superficial readers will not of course detect the fine, oblique, personal touches running everywhere, through every page of this wonderfull book—nor do I pretend that I see the last meanings everywhere—but I see alot! More than in any other writing—but the subtlety of much of it is wonderful and when seen that very  elusiveness gives it an extraordinary piquancy: yes, I think you need not doubt that you have put in so much of yourself and contemporary America that a 'cute man reading the "C.W." hundreds of years from now could reconstruct in his own mind both you and your time & land in a truer and more radical sense than any past time of even 50 or 100 years back can be reconstituted from any book in actual existence and this for many reasons but cheifly for the reason of the unique vitality and suggestiveness of L. of G. Yes, I think you may trust me to know something of your book & you, I have not studied them this past twenty years for nothing! If I did not know you both and love you both there would be something wrong on the one side or the other—but I don't think there is much wrong!

Love to you R M Bucke     see | notes | Jan 2d | 1889   see | notes | Jan 2 | 1889