Friend Beach: Many thanks for the text, which is a good one; & ever so many thanks, also, to you & Miss Emma, for the pleasant invitation, but we are just at this time starting for Elmira for a long summer vacation, & are barred from accepting. In fact we are so seldom in a condition to visit anybody that weⒶemendation have come at last to feel ourseldves doomed to go without meeting our friends any more till we all reach our various quarters in the great hereafter.