I will answer for Birmingham--for any great working town to which we chose to go. We have won a position for the idea which years upon years of labour could not have given it. I believe its worldly fortunes have been advanced in this last week fifty years at least. I feebly express to you what Forster (who couldn't be at Liverpool, and has not those shouts ringing in his ears) has felt from the moment he set foot in Manchester. Believe me we may carry a perfect fiery cross through the North of England, and over the Border, in this cause, if need be--not only to the enrichment of the cause, but to the lasting enlistment of the people's sympathy. I have been so happy in all this that I could have cried on the shortest notice any time since Tuesday. And I do believe that our whole body would have gone to the North Pole with me if I had shown them good reason for it. I hope I am not so tired but that you may be able to read this. I have been at it almost incessantly, day and night for a week, and I am afraid my handwriting suffers. But in all other respects I am only a giant refreshed. We meet next Saturday you recollect? Until then, and ever afterwards, Believe me, heartily yours. [Sidenote: Mrs. Cowden Clarke.] TAVISTOCK HOUSE, _3rd March, 1852._ MY DEAR MRS. CLARKE, It is almost an impertinence to tell you how delightful your flowers were to me; for you who thought of that beautiful and delicately-timed token of sympathy and remembrance, must know it very well already. I do assure you that I have hardly ever received anything with so much pleasure in all my life. They are not faded yet--are on my table here--but never can fade out of my remembrance. I should be less than a Young Gas, and more than an old Manager--that commemorative portfolio is here too--if I could relieve my heart of half that it could say to you. All my house are my witnesses that you have quite filled it, and this note is my witness that I can _not_ empty it. Ever faithfully and gratefully your friend. [Sidenote: Mr. James Bower Harrison.] LONDON, TAVISTOCK HOUSE, _26th March, 1852._ DEAR SIR,