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passage to New York, by talking with him on the subject of enlarging the
printing operations at B. F. I wonder if he would incur some little ink by the by in helping
you to a portion of what few additional printing materials you may need from time to time.
He is well disposed to Association. [close square brackets] With regard to the abandonment of rating by hour,
I am glad of it in part, & doubtful also somewhat. If rating by labour has been [illegible]
stituted as far as practicable, you have done well; and you have done better, if meas-
ures have been instituted for discovering modes of rating by labour applicable to [employments?]
which seem not now to admit of it. There are some kinds of course which will not per-
mit of it at any time. But rating by hour should be retained, I think, wherever
rating by labour is inpracticable - as in the school; if we except the labour of your
literary department. I hope that you have not destroyed too much in the change. In
effect to the payments on account of the stipends, certainly and at once they should be
respect to the payments on account of the stipends, certainly and at once they should be
in money, and if I understand your arrangements, equally to each person in amount &
time. I wonder exceedingly that the non-observance of this obvious rule has not [illegible]
a tremendous convulsion in the Association. But, as you remark, all these questions
deplorably difficult of solution. Nowhere, but in Association could they be [illegible]
but to be [crossed out] rejected.

I anticipate much, when I shall be able to be with you [illegible]
from Mendelsohn's "Songs without Words." And with this hope I must be content. [illegible]
I recollect the exalted enjoyment I received from your lectures, & then endeavour to
think who here could understand even a sentence of their profoundest & best [illegible]
I cannot muster even one. What is to be done? Your lectures, as they now stand, are
entirely too good for our region of country. I shall hope to talk with you on the
matter.

But I must close a communication which has been frequently interrupted?.
I hope it will be thought worthy your perusal. I must beg to be commended to all my
friends at Brook Farm - Mr J M Ripley, Mr & Mrs [Dana?], Miss Fanny Macdaniel