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By-the way, Lizzie has been here and has
gone home again. I go to Kansas,
(with Horace White), to see what prospect
there is of making a fortune - (don't laugh!
If I think I can succeed there I shall
return in about two weeks and fix up
things here and go back again. If not
I shall come back and graduate in 1858
or leave the country. Now you mark
my words I'll do one or the other so
sure as my health is spared me, Deo
volente. I send you the two or three
back no's of the P.F. with one or two of
my articles marked. Enclosed ^{in them} please
find something which I know will like.

Miss Boyden is in town. I shall go
to Rockford with her on Friday. I do like
Delia. It is such women as her ^she who make
men let out of such purposeless fellows as
me I am. Do you know, Bob, Miss Fitch loses
in comparison with such a woman as Delia?

Now you know, they're both older than I
am - so I may speak of them with some in
terest and not be accused of playing Spooney

I wish I was near you so I could speak
with you of a thousand things which I can't
write. I must tell you tho', of Andrew's pane
gyric on you at table the other day. It was
yesterday, come to think of it, when I made
some remark about your curious letters, writ
ten on some half dozen different pieces of paper.

Somebody, nameless of course, said there was a good
deal of affectation about you and I very cowardly
held my tongue but Doc soon made my ears tin
gle and I fancy the speaker's too.