
You are always "so confoundedly in the right" that one's words—if any are spoken—must be monotonously words of praise. Your political note—printed today in "jottings" pleased me immensely. I voted for the Independent candidates here in Mass. & Editor Clement, Aldrich & I held a glorification over the result throughout the country, I cheered aloud when I heard it. It shows how true a man you are that old age even can never catch yr nimble wits in a rut (chinese) but you adhere still to principle & the ideal right. We printed a selection fr. yr N. Am. R. article (Miss Smith editorial dept writing a few words with it). Clement said to me after the election, "Well the country is worth living for now." I think we did not realize what a weight of depression of spirits lay on our minds before. Thank ye for the "Truth-Seeker." Bucke must be cranky for the N. A. Rev. art. is one of the best you ever penned—ripe in wisdom & sound as a shell bark hickory nut.
—Till we meet W. S. K.