
          Cambridge 24th Oct/55 [1855]
 (Evening)


 My dear friend,


 Your welcome letter came
 yesterday afternoon, the proofs 
 only this morning. I took it out
 of the P.O. [Post Office] on my way into Boston
 early in the morning (in the
 rain & mud) to put  Hon. [Honorable] Miss
 Murray on board the Canada,
 to return home. So she is off
 at last.


 I hastily read the first sheet [added: of Pope proofs]
 in Boston & had it mailed from 
 there, I trust in time for to-day's
 N.Y. [New York] mail. I did not get home
 till nearly dusk, and this evening
 I have sat down to read the
 two other sheets, which I shall
 now post to you.


 Please look over my marks
 carefully, & see that they are
        