Writing of this period of her life to the Rev.
Charles Beecher, she says:---
My Dear Brother:---The looking over of father's letters in the period
of his Boston life brings forcibly to my mind many recollections. At
this time I was more with him, and associated in companionship of
thought and feeling for a longer period than any other of my
experience.
In the summer of 1832 she writes to Miss May, revealing her spiritual
and intellectual life in a degree unusual, even for her.
"After the disquisition on myself above cited, you will be prepared to
understand the changes through which this wonderful _ego et me
ipse_ has passed.
"The amount of the matter has been, as this inner world of mine has
become worn out and untenable, I have at last concluded to come out of
it and live in the external one, and, as F------ S------ once advised
me, to give up the pernicious habit of meditation to the first
Methodist minister that would take it, and try to mix in society
somewhat as another person would.
"'_Horas non numero nisi serenas.'_ Uncle Samuel, who sits by me,
has just been reading the above motto, the inscription on a sun-dial
in Venice. It strikes me as having a distant relationship to what I
was going to say. I have come to a firm resolution to count no hours
but unclouded ones, and to let all others slip out of my memory and
reckoning as quickly as possible.
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