, Boston, May 28, 1884)⁠—And that solely for publishing it I have been the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings⁠—is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc’d. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill’d or partially fulfill’d, the best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause⁠—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising⁠—this little phalanx!⁠—for being so few) is that, unstopp’d and unwarp’d by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record⁠—the value thereof to be decided by time.