Manuscript letter

Archives Number: 1011/2.2-148#19

Boston July 26th ‘44
Dear Fanny,
Your most sisterly letter was very grateful to me. It was full of your beautiful soul.
Felton’s father died suddenly, I think, at Littleton two or three days ago and was buried yesterday. I drove out to Cambridge last evening and learned through Agassiz that he had gone to the funeral.
I went to your house to let the domestics know your present condition. I saw Mrs. Potter. Going into the study I saw several parcels, containing books, with notes and letters, also a newspaper, sent by express. The parcels I left untouched; but the rest I send to you today.
I have just read a not from Greene in which he says; “If you see Longfellow tell him that I did not answer his last note- because I was waiting to read Kavanagh. Since then I have not been able to read anything, and had some faint hope that he might have written me- but I fear that the blow which he’s left me alone in the world- has broken the last the (bet__e__) us”-
Felton and Pierce, and some others- perhaps Agassiz- starts on Monday for the White Hills. Pierce’s son entered college very triumphantly.
I have seen Father Mather as he passes along in the procession. There is an expression of benevolence from his countenance; He has the genius of charity.
I am (disgusted) more and more with the present French Gov’t. It is a (despotism) in the disguise of a republic. Ever affectionately Thine,
C.S.

Kent writes me from N. York that he is coming here for a few days.

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