[Manchester—Sunday, 7 September 1873]
Sep. 7th Lizzy came last Wednesday Sep. 3. J. no better. Neighbors all kind as they can be—3 weeks next Tuesday since the splint went on—but the hours do not seem long to him—he is cheerful and patient.
We are reading Channing’s ‘life’ of Thoreau—a book as nearly worthy of the subject as the best lovers of Thoreau could have hoped for. It is a book to study—a book which gives you the sympathetic cords which bound Thoreau to the green world and to society.
