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spring, we hope, if we live and thrive, to take a holi- 
day. Just how and where is not yet clear, but I hope 
to have something to say of it before I am done with 
this letter. Meanwhile I am curious to know if you 
have disposed of Bacon. If your essay pleases me as 
much as your remarks in your letter to me, I shall 
enjoy it. I recant all I wrote you long ago, begging 
you would drop him and take up a more congenial 
subject. . 
Tam ‘ie Duele this evening from hearing Matthew 
Arnold read some of his poems to a great hallful of 
undergraduates and others, in place ae a lecture which 
he was to give, but, poor man! was prevented by his 
agent, who seems to be rather his master. He was 
sail received ; but one cannot say that he is a very 
graceful or a good reader to an audience of eight hun- 
dred or a thousand people. 
He tells me you offered him an introduction to 
me, which he thought he hardly needed, as we had 
met him and Mrs. Arnold at a lunch given by Miss 
North. We are sorry to hear of the determining 
reason of his visit and lecturing tour... . He will 
succeed in this, no doubt; but it is a sort of dog’s 
life, this lecturing all over the country, four times a 
week, at the beck of an agent, who controls all his 
movements, often to audiences that will not appreciate 
him, the more as what he tells me is true, that he has 
no gift as a speaker. But he is pleasant, and will be 
most kindly received. 
Your Lord Chief Justice was most kindly cared for 
and made a most pleasant impression. But in Bos- 
ton, besides coming when every one was away who 
should have attended to him, he fell, unwisely, into 
the hands of . . . Governor Butler, and saw a side of 
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