DEAR GEORGE,—I hope you do not need to be reminded that we
rely on you at 2 o’clock on Thanksgiving Day. Bring all the
climate and all the memories of Newport with you. Mr. Lincoln
in fixing this day has in some sort bound himself to furnish
good news and victories for it. If not, we must comfort each
other with the good which already is, and with that which must
be.
Yours affectionately,