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the grass is luxuriant as I wish it may soon be in
the pastures at home - you must be tired enough
of foddering by this time. I [underline]am[/underline] glad to hear of
the prosperity of the C. V. [Nursery?], and hope this spring
will make a big hole in it. I often think how much
better off & happier I should be with my nose and
knees in it's soil, as of old, than I am here, or am
likely to be. I become more & more of the opinion
that it is best to give up this struggle, but am
not yet quite settled in it. Do write and counsel
me freely.

I have not witnessed any of the spiritual manifest-
ations at Mr. Hawley's, but judge from what I hear
that they seldom receive any thing very satisfactory
at the circles of this house; but at the house of
another disciple in Brooklyn they are receiving a
series of lectures from Swedenbourg through
a medium named Miller (who often comes Mr. Hs.)
which are considered very good. I cannot tell
what effect the faith has had on Mr. & Mrs.
Hawley, (the boys are unbelievers) as I did not know
them before they embraced it, but they are very kind
good people. One of their neighbors and spiritual
friends is a Mrs. Maguire, who tells me that a-
bout 30 years ago she lived in the Hollow, North Fer-
risburgh, when her husband carried on the chair