The character of our climate this year has been injurious to the respiratory organs; but I hope still to serve them.
'I have just missed Dale Owen, with whom I wished to have conversed on spiritualism.

{150} Harris is lecturing here on religion.

I do not hear him praised.
'People are looking for helps to believe, everywhere but in life,--in music, in architecture, in antiquity, in ceremony; and upon all these is written, "Thou shalt not believe." At least, if this be faith, happier the unbeliever.

I am willing to see through that materialism; but, if I am to rest there, I would rend the veil.
'June 1.
'The day of the packet's sailing.

I shall hope to be visited by you here.