p.

(an invalid) has written me many letters,
which I shall publish by & by,
in an article in The Century.)
I think women are my best
readers any way, I heard of
a lady in a New England
city the other day, who, when
she cannot take a walk,
reads some chapter in one
of my books. My English
sketch in "Fresh Fields"
have been approved of by
some good judges, a well
known member of Parliament,
himself a man of letters, said
I seemed to be the only one
who could describe English
scenery. An Englishman
writing me from Cincinnati