MANUSCRIPT: AC. Pencil.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 382; LL 313; L (1931) 371-372, where it is dated "July, 1878," on Mrs. Tuckerman's authority.

The quotation is from John 3.6, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (See letter no. 458.)