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Aug 24 8

Dr J. [B.?] C. Smith

My dear sir

I was profoundly disappointed - I may say annoyed - on learning too late to attend, that you had delivered an address before the Farmers Club, [relating?] to a subject which [engrosses?] my entire time and thoughts, "the wrongs of horses" and other animals.

It was not until the day [underlined] after [underlined] its [underlined] utterance [underlined] that I knew of it: but I have read it, studied it, & contemplated it, with all the intensity of mind & feeling, which its excellence merits.

Every paragraph, [breathes?] the truest humanity, [line?] is suggestive of deep thought and intelligence