The end he sought in this study was to fit himself for "working in the field of the church." But as the question of which church was not even yet fully settled in his mind, his search for the true religion still remained his deepest and most inmost purpose.
Nevertheless, he was enjoying at this time one of his periods of profound interior and exterior peace.

"I feel," he writes, "that I am growing in God's grace.

To Him I look for support.

Will He not impart wisdom as well as love ?" His surroundings at Concord are so vividly described in the letters he wrote to his family that we cannot omit quotations from them.

The first of these is dated at Brook Farm, and describes his efforts to find a room after reaching the village.