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"Pay Roll." Your full & excellent letter or letters were by me duly received on the evening of Friday last Mar. 5th and received too to my great gratification I had been long expecting letters both from you & from Milo. They both finally came together. Yours was partly written sometime ago, about the time I began to expect it. Do you show my letters to Eliab & to Ann? And why do they not write? You say as to seeing your relatives in Mass & with the utmost nonchalance & Sang froid to boot,] "probably I never shall" if you have got into to your old musty snail shell, & drawn your slime around you, and fairly dried or frozen in, is it yet absolutely certain that the sun never will shine, or the gentle rain, or the dews fall again, to soften you out? You enquire why I do not have some thinner & finer ruled paper to write letters on. It would be well. It is simply because I write on just what I have by me, perhaps what happens to be found at the desk, or in the bar room or R.R. or other office where I happen to write. If Mt Grace is the least of all Mountains it is not one of the least extensive, or least beautiful prospects. Am hardly prepared to agree with you that Potatoes "Were". You Enquire if there is R.R. from Boston to Northfield. The Vermont & Mass. R.R. "a part of which I am". was finished last August from the terminus of "Fitchburg R.R. at Fitchburg to Baldwinsville just now opened from there to Athol (through South Royalston, where the dreadful R.R. accident lately occurred) nearly done to mouth of Millers river, will be complete to Northfield sometime next spring, to Brattleboro Vt. in the course of the season.