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Cambridge 30 Oct. 1832

Dear Sir,

I hope you will excuse the present
application from a consideration of its necessity
and from my desire to be perfectly exact on the
point of my inquiry.

In the course of some remarks I had
occasion to make, at the request of the Corporation
on the dedication of the Dane Law College, I
incidentally referred to your period of life.
I had inquired of Judge Story and he had
given me without hesitation that you were
in your 77th year. I referred it therefore
to that period.

Since the delivery of the address on
again conversing with Judge Story, he ex-
pressed himself with less certainty on the
point.

I am particularly anxious not
to make any mistakes, and on consultation