Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE RETURN TO GEORGIA. In West Springfield there was a family by the name of Williams with whom P. H. Mell boarded while he was teaching in that town. He became very much attached to the members of that family and often spoke of them in after years with affection. The gentleman, Mr. L. Williams, was particularly kind to the young man by taking him into his family and extending to him all the considerate feeling and affectionate attention characteristic of such a kind hearted man. On July the 16th, 1837, just before returning to his home in Georgia, Mr. Mell wrote the following letter to Mr. Williams,.from Newbury Port, which shows his appreciation of the sympathy and friendship of these noble people: "MY Dear Sir: I have just received your very kind letter and hasten to answer it before I leave. I start from this place for New York to-morrow. I am very much indebted to you for your characteristic offer to me to make your house my home. I can never cease to remember with the liveliest emotions the kind sympathy you and Mrs. Williams have ever exhibited to me, an outcast from friends. But I will not undertake to express myself, for I know Icannot do justice to my feelings. The time I spent at your house I can never cease 1o remember, for it was the most gloomy and yet pne of the happiest periods of my life—gloomy on account of the coolness, yea, injustice of my former friends—coolness the more cutting and oppressive from tho consciousness on my part of its injustice— and the happiest from the unmingled kindness I received i;i a, land of strangers—a kindness the more grateful to me from the consciousness that I had nothing to recommend me to it. I do not anticipate any very great danger in going home now, particularly if I adopt the course I think of. I de...