If the journey were not so long and so costly I would ask you to come.

Be assured that whatever may be your decision in any of these relations, my esteem for you cannot be thereby diminished.
My only fear is that such encroachments on your good nature will reduce your estimation of, dear friend, yours most sincerely, "CHARLES LANE.
"Regards to the Doctor and all friends.

The Shakers have kindly inquired for you, and they still take much interest in our life.

Have you seen the last _Dial ?_ The _Present_ is good, but surely not good enough.

I hope to write a more universal letter in response to your next, for which I wait." Poor Lane, failing to find any equally confiding and generous friend to shoulder with him the personal debts of the founder of Fruitlands, was compelled at last to let the farm "lapse into individuality" and to see "the idea suspended." In his next and "more universal letter" he announces that the experiment is ended in consequence of Mrs.
Alcott's refusal to remain on the place through the winter.