anything else. In that case nothing but correspondence by letter will remain for an exchange of views, and I shall then, if you desire it, write again when you will be relieved of your governor's business and more at ease.
Wishing you a happy New Year, I am sincerely yours.
TO JOHN T. MORSE, JR.
I have received your kind note of yesterday—in fact, I have been expecting some admonition of this kind for some time. My engagements have indeed very seriously interrupted my work, and I shall labor under the same difficulty for several weeks longer, at least until about the middle of March. I have written several chapters in the rough, but there is so much more to be done that I have no hope of completing the book[1] this spring. Of course, I look upon it, not as a hasty job, but as a very serious task, and if I furnish you anything at all I want it to be the best I can do. All I can say now is that, as I have advanced in the work, my interest in it has very much increased; that I want to complete it, and that I mean to give my whole time to it as soon as the exigencies of my situation permit. I can only add that I should have finished it long ago, had I not been diverted from it by more pressing duties, and that I hope soon to be able to take it in hand again.
TO GEORGE W. FOLSOM[2]
Last night I received your kind letter of yesterday with a check for $600 to refund my travelling expenses during
- ↑ Henry Clay in the American Statesmen series, of which Mr. Morse was the editor.
- ↑ Treasurer of the Independent Republican organization.
