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& I think upon consideration had I fully explained
all in my letter of the 7th July you would never had
occasion to have written me in the manner you have
written. But I will now explain all & will adhere
to the truth in all my statements & will keep nothing
back from you that is at all connected with the affair.

Let the following words which shall be true settle
all & inform you of my honest intentions which I shall
adhere to strongly. Of my doings in P you know all
about. After leaving there & on arriving at New York I
wrote a letter to Lize Tr [abbreviated last name] just previous to my sail-
ing for this place. On my arrival here I received a
letter from her but none from Ames as you suspected

I then wrote her an answer in return & then deter-
mined that I would never write her again & thus
far I have not broken my resolution, which grows strong-
er day by day. This is probably the letter she made such
a parade about in P. & well might she do so for it is the
last she will ever receive from me. Last Friday however
I received a letter from her dated at Boston Sept 1st but
you must have no fears of my answering it as I shall
never do so for I care nothing about her & I never for
a moment thought of marrying her, far from it I assure
you. Let them talk as much as they have a mind to
but pay no attention to what they say for they know
nothing whatever of my affairs. When she first wrote me
March 18th, she wrote me to direct her letters to Pepperell
& when I wrote her July 6th I directed to P. & not to Nashua
as you intimated. This is the only letter I have written