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hat we are drifting, and that nobody knows where we shall fetch up. An intimate friend, he says, and as I think the clearest-headed of the foreign ministers at Washington, and a lover, too, of the United States, writes to me, We are here still in great uncertainty, and the process of disintegration finds no remedy. I think the same sense of uncertainty prevails everywhere. This, in itself, is mischief and disaster. Yours faithfully, Geo. Ticknor. To Sir Edmund Head. Boston, April 21, 1861. My dear Head,—I sent you by yesterday's express a parcel, about which the two papers I enclose will give you all the information you will need. The Danish books, I think, will be all you will want for some time. But there are other things to talk about now. The heather is on fire. I never before knew what a popular excitement can be. Holiday enthusiasm I have seen often enough, and anxious crowds I remember during the war of 1812-15, but never anything like this. Indeed, here a