strings: I do not think I can come to Kentucky this season. I am so poor and make so little headway in the world, that I drop back in a month of idleness as much as I gain in a year's sowing. I should like to visit you again. I should like to see that "sis" of yours that v.vyas absent when I was there, though I suppose she would run away again if she were to hear I was coming.