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No. 10 Anthony St. Aug 24th Dear Mr Sanborn We are glad to have such good news from you regarding the new Thoreau and only wish all of that treasure left to Mr R might have fallen into your hands - By the way we are quite in the dark regarding it, but suppose Houghton Mifflin & Co are the fortunate possessors. So to printing a few hundred copies of the Dunshee portrait from the
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photogravure plate, I will ask H. M. & Co. as to the advisability of so doint thanking you for the suggestion. We have enjoyed the letters of Mr Salt and Dr Japp. It brought them back to me with the pleasant hours spent with them in their Surrey homes and the rambles along the byways - the twilight song of the Nightingale - Cowslips and Bluebills - Hawthorn and Furze - We shall be glad
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to see you in September, and the time you anticipate coming this way between the 10th and 15th of September will be perfectly convenient. With kindest regards to Mrs Sanborn and yourself in which [her ?] sister joins I am cordially yrs Walton Ricketson To Frank B. Sanborn Esq Concord Mass
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P.S. Anna has just come to the Studio, and asks me to add, an invitation to Mrs Sanborn to come too - I do hope she will come and am quite shure [sic] we could make a visit to our quiet home a pleasant outing for her - Anna sends her love with the invitation.
