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Andover Nov. [?] 1832

[?] Baker, I was yesterday very happily gratified
in receiving a letter, from my old chum. I had for many days
and some weeks been looking for a letter, and began to think
of concluding that since you had probably got into [?]
as that more peculiarly pleasant to you in almost every respect, you
had forgotten your old friend, and could spend your thoughts
more for your own profit and pleasure, than to trouble your self
about [scholars?]. I was however gratified to find by your letter
that though you was in a climate peculiarly congenial to your
institution and feelings, you still could look back upon Andover
in some respect with pleasure.

But I must [?] directly to other matters and things, as
I am situated with chum [Dantelle?] in No 28 [B.H.?] with a good
[?] about two words of wood, and one of [?], and when the [?]
from old [?] us too much we [?] it, influence
by applying a little more wood and [?], and this we are [?]
comfortable and happy, though [?] occasionally sings us a [?]
tune at our window. I do not know [?] how many we have
in our class, probably about fifty. Brother Nichols has gone to perform
the duties of his tutorship at Brown University. Wilkinson has gone
to Whealing, Va to engage in teaching. [?] Jones has gone to Kentucky
(I understand) to take the charge of a friends seminary. Waldo
instructed in Mr. Halls school during vacation, and got [?]
on [?] two hours per day. Pratt [?] in [warmth?] an agent for
[?] Society, collected about five hundred dollars, addressed about
eighteen or twenty audiences. Spaulding instructed in New [?]
reading, returned two days since. Champion went to [?]
up the people upon the subject of mission, got as far as New [?]
which way taken sick, quite sick of a fever, got able to go home about
three weeks since, returned here yesterday, quite recovered, and prepared
to engage in study. As it respects myself, immediately after
anniversary, I took a tour of fifty [?] to the west on one of [?]
[?], gone one week, got one [?] on the whole felt
very well satisfied with that. Went to work in that [?] old
act, that used so much to annoy you, and during the four weeks
made about twenty windows blinds, for which I expect to have
not less than a dollar and a quarter a piece, beside a desk for
which I had the beatifull [?] edition of Shakespeare, and three
dollars in money. And at the commencement of the term, and till
now, have enjoyed better health of body, on greater [?] of mind
I have to do more this term than I did last winter.