NNY KEMBLE.

NEW YORK, Friday, May 24, 1833.
MY DEAREST H----,

I received your last letter, dated the 22d March, a week ago, when
I was in Boston, which we have left, after a stay of five weeks, to
return here, where we arrived a few days ago....

Boston is one of the pleasantest towns imaginable. It is built upon
three hills, which give it a singular, picturesque appearance, and
I suppose suggested the name of Tremonte Street, and the Tremonte
Hotel, which we inhabited. The houses are many of them of fine
granite, and have an air of wealth and solidity unlike anything we
have seen elsewhere in this country. Many of the streets are
planted with trees, chiefly fine horse-chestnuts, which were in
full leaf and blossom when we came away, and which harmonize
beautifully with the gray color and solid handsome style of the
houses. They have a fine piece of ground, like a park, in one part
of the town, which, together with the houses round it, reminded me
a good deal of the Green Park and the walk at the back of Arlington
Street.

[The addition of the new part of Boston, stretching beyond the Common
and the public Gardens, has added immensely to the beauty of the city,
and the variety of the buildings and alternate views at the end of the
vistas of the fine streets, looking toward Dorchester Heights, and those
ending in the blue waters of the bay and Charles River, not unfrequently
reminded me both of Florence and Venice, under a sky as rich, and more
pellucid, than that of Italy.]

The country all round the neighborhood of Boston is charming. The
rides I took in every direction were lovely, and during the last
fortnight of our stay nothing could exceed the exquisite brightness
of the spring weather. The apple trees were all in bloom, the
lilacs in flower, and everything as sweet, fresh, and enchanting as
possible.... How I wish you could have seen the glorious Hudson
with me the other day, now that the woods on its banks are dark
with the shade of their thick and varied foliage! How you would
have rejoiced in the beautiful and noble river scenery! This is "a
brave new world," more ways than one, and we are every way bound to
like it, for our labor has been most amply rewarded in its most
important result, money; and the universal kindnes