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affairs and living prospects deprived the
public, I mean the state, of his usefulness.
Had his home affairs admitted and he
been more ambitious, a distinguished
character throughout the nation might
have been beheld in him. But I sorrow.
This is a serious time- one by one our
best men are dropping off yielding to
the summons of death! Hertford Co is
nothing like such a place as it was
12 months ago.

Another death gives my mind a still more
sombre hue- sorrow sinks deep in to
my soul. This is the demise of a beautiful
and finely accomplished young lady Miss
Wynns. It is with sorrowful emotion to
hear of the death of any acquaintances -
but when it is a young lady, inter-
esting and fair, and ummarried too, it is
delicately heart rending. I can't express my
feelings at present. This lovely angel and
the above mentioned able gentleman
left the world at [once?] unexpected [to me?]
This bereavement of the pleasure of or hope
of the pleasure of their society, impresses
my mind with more regret than my counte-
nance expresses. The times are calculated
to [i?] with a sentiment-
al and serious turn of mind. In the first place
I am unwell, the weather is cloudy, I have
just returned from Court where I realized no
money - this with my deficient situation and
these deaths, render me sorrowful.