[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS to [Ellis Gray Loring], May 9, 1850

peace and quietness, far from the world and its
ways. I will endeavor to come on in the course
of a fortnight; or rather we will. I am in hopes
to find some small house to let in South Natick,
near my niece Susan Bigelow. If so, I will hire
it right off, and plant some radishes &c.
If there is no such place to be had, we will either
board with my niece Susan Bigelow, or my father,
until fall.

We both thank you most cordially for your kind
and wholesale invitation. If we could be happy any
where on earth under such circumstances, it would
be in your family, my best and dearest friend. But
such a position would be quite insupportable.
A little corner of my own, even if it be the corner
of a barn, is absolutely necessary to my comfort.
And now when my interest is entirely withdrawn