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Is it not especial to Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Bunyan, & a few, very few more such. I find it though in Prov. Phil.! Quite a story that you tell of bad Weld & Old Davis. Is it so believed? If so some Brunswick & Topsham people are not very sorry. The Welds being too aristocratic on too very small a foundation to be very popular at home. You say some topics you wish to "enlarge" upon. Write, Write. Paper is cheap & postage low, & I am an excellent reader. I write, as you see, every one of the few ideas I get. Perhaps it may do me good to read a few more of some one else. If there is little Lumbering business done this winter will not Lumber Merchants fare better next season? I agree with you fully on "manifest destiny" that there will be more books written, perhaps that there will be more good books. But it is quite another question in my mind whether there are any more needed. That is except mere Scientific books. To illustrate & explain new discoveries in science & art. Does it not seem hardly worth the while? There is far more written already than anyone can learn in one life time. What's the use of more? Besides it costs too much. One of course ought not to inflict upon the world, as most do, any thing which has been written before. If not he must spend a life time in finding it out. If there is enough written already for others to learn; had he not better spend his life in studying that himself, rather than in trying to teach the world something else. This is one view of the case; I see in reading over your letter that you have stated another & quite a different view. I hardly think though your statement true that the poet of equal genius has as much opportunity to do a great work as if ?page torn