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  To Mr. Alcott

Your kind & welcome letter come to hand. Pardon me for not responding sooner. I esteem your friendly appreciation of "Democracy." I have just sent you "Personalism"—which is to be followed, in perhaps a couple of months or so, by another article, addressing itself mainly to the question of what kind of Literature we must seek, for our coming America. &c. In the three articles (to be gathered probably in book) I put forth, to germinate if they may, what I would fain hope might prove little seeds & roots.

I am still living here in Washington.—employed in a post in the Attorney General's office, very pleasantly, with sufficient leisure, & almost entirely without those peculiar belongings, that make the Treasury & Interior Dep't​ &c. clerkships disagreeable. I am, as ever, working on Leaves of Grass—hoping to bring it yet into fitter & fuller proportions. I am well as usual. My dear mother is living & well; we speak of you. I wish you to give my best respects & love to Mr. Emerson