Some day, Miss Booth,1explanatory note when you (having become acquainted with my many virtues & merits,) shall come to like me as well as I already like you,) we two shall be a couple of right good friends. Then you will say, “I do not value this book because it has worth—since that is questionable—but I value it because Mr. C’s impulse was kindly & honest & I am satisfied that he would have sent me a much better one if he had been able to write it.” (And that will be just as true a thing as you ever said—mark my words!)