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vitiated by the introdu^on of the flimsiest points of French social 

 requirements-r-rather ftia^ the more solid and estimable qualities 

 which belong to English domestic life. The best social development 

 in America will, doubtless, finally result frOm an internal movement 

 springing from the very bosom of our institutions' ; butjjefore that 

 can happen, a great many traits and refinements will necessarily be 

 borrowed frpm the old world — ^and the larger interests, healthi^ 

 home tastes, and more thorough education of English women, seem 

 to me hardly rated so highly by us as they deserve. Go to Paris, 

 if you will, to see the most perfect taste in dress, and the finest' 

 charm of merely external manners, but mate the acquaintance of 

 English women if you wish, to get a high idea of feminine pharacter 

 as it should be, to command your sincerest and most lasting admi- 

 ration and respect ' 



