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226Letter Nr. 8[To Talabot]London, January 19, Wednesday, 1831My dear Father,I received your letter in answer to my last one. You were afraid that itmight not find me still in London, but some circumstances on which myleaving was to depend still had not made it possible. I was not then ever readyto depart. The money which is sent from my country was only received by methe day before yesterday. Bontemps arrived the day after I received your letter.You felt in advance with what great pleasure I was going to embrace him, andeverything I could say would depict it too weakly if you did not experience it.The sons of our fathers in Paris, living with your life, the same religious life,we met each like brothers, friends of much more sacred, the most sacred on theearth and all our harmonious word is only the expression of the harmony of allour being, of the desire to vivify all humanity with it! The business affairswhich called him here do not permit him t o devote all his time to the work ofpropagation. I am disappointed at that but I rejoice at what he has done; hiscooperation is most useful.In my last letter I told you that I had a conversation on the Doctrinewith the Owenists. The very day I sent it, it was the fourth or fifth of thismonth, there was peesent at my conference a French doctor, the friend of ourSimon who went to Paris and perhaps has already spoken t o you about it. Butas suddenly they wanted t o know all that we are and each person of thesociety asked different questions about it and that day we arrived at nothingdecisive.Two days later and the days following, I went to see in private most ofthe people who were present, and two or three days after I sent you my lettersome of them became almost indoctrinated.