we shall
remain for a month; after which we return here for a week, and then
proceed to Philadelphia by the 1st of June, where we intend closing
our professional labors for the summer. Thence we shall probably go
to Niagara and the Canadas. My father has talked of spending a
little quiet time in Rhode Island, where the weather is cool and we
might recruit a little; but there does not seem much certainty
about our plans at present. In the autumn we shall begin our
progress toward New Orleans, where we shall probably winter, and
act our way back here by the spring, when I hope and trust we shall
return to England.... The book of Harriet Martineau's which you
bade me read is delightful. I have not quite finished it yet, for I
have scarcely any time at all for reading; for want of the habit of
thinking and reading on such subjects I find the political economy
a little stiff now and then, though the clearness and simplicity
with which it is treated in this story are admirable. I did not
know that I was supposed to be the original of Letitia.... God
bless you, my dearest H----.

I am ever your most affectionate,
F. A. K.

"For Each and for All" was, I think, the name of the volume taken from
Miss Martineau's admirable series of political economy tales, which my
friend, Miss S----, sent me. The heroine of the story is a young
actress, and Miss Martineau once told me that she had derived some
slight suggestion of the character from me.

NEW YORK, Friday, April 10, 1833.
MY DEAREST H----,

... On Monday last I acted Lady Macbeth; on Tuesday, Lady Townley;
on Wednesday, Belvidera; and last night, Portia, and Mary Copp in
"Charles II." This is pretty hard work. To-morrow we start for
Boston, which we shall reach on Sunday, and Monday our work begins
there.... I think four nights a week as much as either my father or
myself ought to work, and as much as we really can work profitably,
the rest being money taken from our capital--_i.e._, our health.
But in Boston we shall act for three weeks or a month every night
but the Saturdays. [The days when four or five performances a week
were considered a sufficient exertion for popular actors or singers
are far enough in the pas