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Charles Gordon Ames to May Wright Sewall

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{in a second hand: "Ames, Charles Gordon"}

25 [?] Roxbury, Mass Feb 10 / 90

My dear Mrs. Sewall -

Woe is me that I am not man you took me for! I cannot go to Washington, & have never said or thought that I could go If only wishes were horses, how simply I would ride: but my feet are fast in the stocks. Please forgive whoever has deceived you in this matter & congratulate yourself that the long programme will still be too short for all who will want to speak. The "Toasts" you offer me are loathsome: I am greedy enough to take both; and am therefore sure you will suffer from a plethora of talk.

I have just been making the enclosed copy of some line which my wife wants me to send you for the banquet; She,

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to meanwhile lying limp with tonsilitis. Should you care to use her "home", I trust you will be the reader of it. You will observe that she insists on pronouncing the Greek "Tau" after the German standard. Or, if you choose, you can call "brow" as if it were "braugh!" Mrs Ames's love for Susan must have affected her like an inspiration; for I do not remember her dropping into rhyme till now since our wedding journey (1863) when we were en routé between Albany & Lake Champlain. Then she broke out —

"The Hudson rests her happy head Among the northern hills, And draws into her Emerald bed The little snickerings rills."

This you are not to use at Washington though it may appear in Fanny's "collected works".

Do you know how happily, your fellow-church folk at Spring Gardens are getting on with Mr Nichols their new minister. I trust our new president remember is doing us credit. Please come this way & report yourself now & then

Yours habitually

Chas. Gordon Ames

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