Inside: Noah Webster letter to Emily Ellsworth, 1840 August 8

Twenty Languages. One gentleman from Cincin-
nati says he can get me fifty or a hundred Subscribers.
How this will be I do not know. One thing I desire
& that is, to be relieved from the toil of study, & business;
& yet I am so accustomed to action, that I presume
inaction would be tedious & perhaps not salutory.

From all I can gather from Harriet's letters, she is
rather declining than otherwise. Poor woman, she has
no good domestics, & in Amherst none can be obtained.
Our New England equality, however much ap-
plauded, operates very severely on the old & infirm.

Accept for all our love & best wishes.

from your affectionate father

N Webster