Has come to the beginning of a journey to western Massachusetts; sends all up to that point. Thinks Elizabeth [Manning] Hawthorne might write of her brother's childhood and youth. Refers to material published for the first time in Passages from the American Note-Books, Boston, 1868. 4 p.

Is distressed at the illness of [Franklin] Pierce. [Horatio] Bridge thinks his own name and that of Jonathan Cilley may be printed in full. Asks about selling one of Julian's illuminations. Refers to "Passages from Hawthorne’s Note-Books, No.3" (In the Atlantic Monthly, March 1866) 4 p.