p.

The good & beautiful, as the best means.
It is very valuable of establishing it, as showing his [investment, earnestness ?] & sincerity
in persuing the highest ends.
I read the translation of [Smiel's ?]
Journal you speak of several years ago &
was a good deal interested in it, No, Smiel
himself did not make the same deep im-
pression on me that Thoreau does, partly doubt-
less, because I was not personally acquainted
with him, & partly, perhaps, because he
was a less healthy thinker. The transla-
tion I seem to remember as very beautiful,
& I presume you are enjoying it.
I am considerably occupied
at present, for so leisurely a worker as I
am, in preparing "Autumn" for Thoreau's
Journal, wh I hope may be published this
year.
Sincerely Yours,
H.G.O. Blake