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Camden{?}

Sept. 17th. 1860.

Rt. Rev'd & Dear Bro,

I have received
your letter and in reply say that
I have been long and sincerely de-
sirous of being present at your next
meeting at University Place.

My hopes however for some time
past, have been becoming less and
less, and are now entirely faded
away.

I went to Phil-
adelphia in May last, to have an
operation performed upon my eye --

It has {insert symbol} been done, but attended with no
success, and has left the eye wound-
ed, sensitive, and subject to inflam-
mation. The sight of the other
eye also is almost gone, so that I am
almost entirely blind, and very
feeble in body. It is out of the