[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS to Louisa Loring, August 14, 1843

Brimstone fires. I wonder The birds don't drop
down dead when they fly over it, as The ancients say
they used to when floating over Avernus. I would quit
a boarding-house where his face dined often.

I wish The spirit would move you to write once
in a while; for David and I agreed long ago that Louise
wrote the pleasantest letters we ever recieved.

David desires most hearty love to you all. John com-
-plains that I never put in half love enough for him,
when I am writing. His visit to Boston is a golden page in
his calendar of life. He is always talking of it.

Give my best love to Augusta. Her charming letters are great
enliveners of my life. Love to John and Jane. Tell the latter
I thank her heartily for her sweet, sunny little note.

My N. York Letters will be out in a week. Once in a while a twinge
goes through me - What if I should get into debt by publishing them? I think not.

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Louisa Loring.
West Beach.

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Aug '43

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