Livy dear, I have just written three German letters to the children, & now I will give the fag-end of my time before train-departure w to a word with Mamma. By George these are terrific days of travel!——eight, ten, twelve hours in the cars every day or night, & a talk on the platform at the end. Toledo & Detroit have been interchanged; consequently I leave here at 6 p.m. today, reach Jackson toward 10; leave there half past 5 a.m., & get to Toledo during the forenoon. Cable would land in — — - - - - - - - - - in a minute if he were to go a mile on Sunday; consequently he leaves here at 5 tomorrow morning, & is on the road the entire day till night.

This is going to be a hard week, a thundering hard week, but I don’t mind it, because it ends at home. ◊ Ⓐemendation We prance out onto the platform half asleep, now-a-days, but it isn’t any matter, we could do our work & do it well, too, if we were asleep, we are so pat & posted in it. We have rattling good times on the platform. We take a perfectly frightened & frozen audience, & gradually & surely thaw them out & rouse them up & make them shout. And frozen audiences are not unusual, for they have long ago ceased from lecture-going, & don’t know how to conduct themselves along at first. I love you darling, & soon I shall see you.