362 Edward Livingston Yonmans. 



NEW YORK, March 18, 1879. 



MY DEAR SPENCER : I am back again safe, sound, and 

 satisfied. My return was even finer than my passage over, 

 the sea being like a lake the whole distance. 



I find all well here and enjoying the opening of the 

 spring. The sky is clear and the sun bright, although it is 

 still cold. My brother has improved a great deal as a con- 

 sequence of taking responsibility, and I mean he shall get 

 still further benefit from it. I found the Appletons in a 

 very pleasant mood, but have not yet had time to broach 

 business. There are many things to attend to, some of 

 which have been neglected. 



NEW YORK, June j, 1879. 



MY DEAR SPENCER : To-day rounds me up to fifty- 

 eight, and I am making a holiday of it, which gives quite a 

 new sensation. It amounts to little practically, as I am 

 good for nothing to work anyway, being again crippled, 

 confined, and suffering a good deal of pain by a rheumatic 

 relapse of my right foot. I had been better for some days 

 so that I could get about comfortably, though unable to 

 wear an ordinary shoe. 



The Chicago Times printed my reply to Van Buren 

 Denslow and I sent you a copy. 



You are of course aware before this of the " strike " 

 Fiske has made with his new lectures in Boston, and which 

 has led to a repetition in London. If he succeeds there it 

 will be a great card for him. 



38 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYS WATER, W., June 20, 1879. 

 MY DEAR YOUMANS: That was a capital letter of yours 

 in the Chicago paper. The points were all admirably 

 grasped and clearly put. A better expositor I cannot im- 

 agine. It is clear to me from this letter, and from all the 

 various things you have from time to time written, that the 

 lectures you have been scheming would be admirably 



