...From your true friend, C. S. Boston, Friday, June 10, 1831. my dear friend,—. . . Your letter, just handed to me by my father, has called me from a most listless, fruitless perusal of Hallam 's History of the Middle Ages. The book now lies open on the sofa, where I was lounging. My paper is before me, and pen in hand. The past has gone through my mind with its thronging association...