Both James and myself feel greatly interested in your journal,[40] in spite of its proposed name. James told me to express his horror to you at the cockneyism of such a title. _The Broadway Chronicle_ chronicles the thoughts and feelings of Broadway, not those of the New England people whom you seem willing to receive somewhat from. Should not a title have truth for its first recommendation? Do you write from the meridian of Broadway? I think you write from a sturdy New England heart, that has a good strong well-spring of old Puritan blood beating therein, with all its hatred to forms and cant, to fashion and show. If ‘Pistol speaks naught but truth,’ should his name be a lie? Pistol’s is not; it expresses the man truly. I wish yours did as much to us here, though if it _really_ gratifies your taste and judgment, if it is not a _whim_, but a _thought_, we shall all like it in time, I suppose, if we do not now. If it is good we shall of course come round to it. I always say just what I think, as you see, and I trust it will not seem harsh and unlovely to you in me as a woman. I do not wish to appear so ever, but I had rather than give up what I think is truly and undeniably one of _woman’s_ rights in common with man. James says he cannot say anything now with certainty in regard to his contributions to your paper, except that he will give you, of course, the best he has. Mrs. Putnam, I believe, has nothing translated at present, but James will ask her, also William Story and Nathan Hale. I have some translations I made from the German, songs, ballads, etc., which are at your service if you care to have them. I hope to write somewhat when I can have James always by my side to encourage me, and in time it may be something more than a source of pleasure to us. Carter has seen your letter, and I do not doubt will be ready to do all he can, ready and glad. I intended to have written to you and Mrs. Briggs expressly to invite you to our wedding, but I cannot do it now with much force or grace after your paragraph on the subject.[41] To us who have been married for nearly five years, it is of course no spiritual change; but if it were merely for the fact that from that day we can always be together, it would be well worth celebrating by some rite and calling our friends about us to participate in it. What that rite is does not greatly matter, but I prefer that which time has consecrated. “I can scorn nothing which a nation’s heart Hath held for ages holy.”