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Lawson Merrill made us a visit this summer His way of talking about love-matters is so much like his mother - but there are many things about him very agreeable -

What are you doing now and what reading? Tell me wont you? Lawson told me a good deal about Green Bay, as it is, but not as I used to know it - He appears to have a great reverence for the Martins - He said that "Sam" had written him that Dr. Armstrong had left you - Can it be so? and where has he gone

When I commenced this I felt like writing but a few minutes since my attention was called off, and now I dont seem to feel so much in the mood for it - Oh my dear friend if I only had more faith, even in this world's matters - In regard to my religious state I am truly wretched and I am sinking every day into a state of despair, entire despair - I cant feel reconciled to some of the events which have come about, so different from when I