TO MATILDA M.HAYS.
"Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous.Cold and lifeless,because they do not represent our life.The only gift is a portion of thyself.Therefore let the farmer give his corn;the miner,a gem;the sailor,coral and shells;the painter,his picture;and the poet,his poem."--Emerson's Essays.
A.A.P.May,1858