
I received your welcome epistle some weeks since, and was pleased to find you had not forgotten me.—
I am still in this whereabouts, and here I shall probably remain for some time to come.—You may imagine how fortunate this decision of mine is for the people here. Of course as long as these diggins are irradiated by the presence of your humble servant, a double amount of splendor in things spiritual, moral, and intellectual, is bestowed upon the residents thereof.—
I see by the papers that Overacre has opened a "Children's Retreat," for the practice of "Home Education."—If he succeeds probably the "coruscations of the lambent flame" will set your South Bay in flames. Sincerely, however, I think there is much more in that man's system and in his brain too, than is appreciated by the people of your mamon mammon -and-aristocracy-worshipping village.—Tell him so for me.—
God bless you W Whitman