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and at work.
Still I wish to return in good health and spirits, and not to lead a maimed life.
I fear, and the physician positively asserts, that if I go back now I shall thwart the whole object of my journey, and that if I hope to be well I must go on with the baths.
I have therefore concluded to remain here until I receive an answer from you; promising myself that when I once escape from this hospital I will never enter another until that final one appointed for all the poets.
Will you have the goodness to say to your daughter , Miss Quincy, that I left her package for Mr. Graham at its address in Havre; and presume it reached him safely.
In coming through France it was not in my power to go into Brittany, and avail myself of your letter of introduction to him; the place of his residence lying too far out of my route.
From Paris I came through Belgium to this ancient city of Boppard, where I have remained stationary since the first of June.
With kind remembrances to Mrs. Quincy and your family,
Very truly yours
It is interesting to note the manner in which this appeal was met by the economical college.
