January 31. I shall bring the "United
Netherlands" to an end by the end of this year. But how I shall feel when
I come out of that mine where I have been delving so many years I can scarcely
imagine. I shall feel like a man who has worked out his twenty years in the
penitentiary, and who would on the whole prefer to remain. Good-by, my dearest
mother, and, with my most earnest prayers for your health and happiness,
I am your
affectionate son,
J. L. M.
SOURCE: George William Curtis, editor, The
Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley,
Volume III, p. 4
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