one of the terrors of old age that I might not know
when to stop.

In our time, the world cannot lose what
has gone out of it in the death of Ruskin. No such
intellectual + moral splendor has shone upon the
English-speaking lands since we learned to read.

Was there ever, in history, a national plunge downward
into ???ism so mad, so swift, so unaccountable, so fatuous,
as that to which this smart Republic has been tempted by
McKinley + the money-makers who have fooled him? Lowell,
or Hosea Biglow, was not mistaken:

"But you've got to get up Early,
If your going to take in God"!

Love, much, to Martha, + to you! Faithfully, F.D.H.