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Boston Dec 31st
1856

My dear Sir

I fear you must think
me the most ungrateful and
inattentive of correspondents, but if
you could realise the extent and na
ture of the unusual pressure of affairs
that have absorbed my time and com
pelled me to defer, and to defer - the
more pleasant task of thanking my
friend I am sure you would commis
erate rather than blame me -
I has been be cause I have not been a
ble to write you with the length and
care that I wanted to that I have wait
ed and not because I have failed to
appreciate your favors and your
kindness. In the first place let
me say that I brought up the subject
of the [illegible] of the journal of our
society for you and have just re-

Boston Dec 31st
1856

My dear Sir

I fear you must think
me the most ungrateful and
inattentive of correspondents, but if
you could realise the extent and na
ture of the unusual pressure of affairs
that have absorbed my time and com
pelled me to defer, and to defer - the
more pleasant task of thanking my
friend I am sure you would commis
erate rather than blame me -
I has been be cause I have not been a
ble to write you with the length and
care that I wanted to that I have wait
ed and not because I have failed to
appreciate your favors and your
kindness. In the first place let
me say that I brought up the subject
of the [illegible] of the journal of our
society for you and have just re-