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The Collected Works and Correspondence of Chauncey Wright
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Collected Works of Chauncey Wright, Volume 3
Letters
CHAPTER IX.
To the Same.

To the Same.

Aug. 2, 1875.

I go to-morrow to Portsmouth, and on Wednesday to Magnolia, there to visit for a day or two Mrs. Lesley and her

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daughters, — my once little friends. Whether I shall get back in time to reach you on Friday, or not till Saturday, I leave to Spontaneity. . . . The weather here is so cool to-day, and has been for several days, that it seems absurd to go down to the Sea on account of comfort, or for less than some spiritual advantage, such as Friendship or Truth; for which I have spelt it with a big S. . . .

I hope the “Nation” will publish this week my incidental notice of Spencer’s “Persistence of Force” in an article on “German Darwinism.” 87

I have been thinking and writing more or less to the point on aeronautics, but have not got far into the subject yet.

Chauncey mentions in the last two letters an intended visit to the Lesleys at Magnolia, — on the seashore, near Manchester, Massachusetts. Of this visit, Mrs. Lesley writes: “His last visit to us was at Magnolia, only a few weeks before his death, when his deep composure, his perfect self-control, and his splendid conversation restored to me any impression that might have faded of my earlier intercourse with him. Day after day he wandered on the shore with Mary, discoursing to her of wonders in sea and sky and air. How carefully he explained, how considerately he waited for her comprehension, how glowingly and enthusiastically he pointed out successive wonders!”