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SRandlett at Dec 03, 2018 07:38 PM

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{in a second hand: "Ames, Charles Gordon"}

25 [?]
Roxbury, Mass Feb 10 / 90

My dear Mrs. Sewall -

Woe is me that I am
not man you took me for!
I cannot go to Washington, & have
never said or thought that I could go
If only wishes were horses, how
simply I would ride: but my feet
are fast in the stocks. Please
forgive whoever has deceived you
in this matter & congratulate your-
self that the long programme
will still be too short for all
who will want to speak. The
"Toasts" you offer me are
loathsome: I am greedy enough
to take both; and am therefore
sure you will suffer from
a plethora of talk.

I have just been making
the enclosed copy of some
line which my wife wants me
to send you for the banquet; She,

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{in a second hand: "Ames, Charles Gordon"}

25 [?]
Roxbury, Mass Feb 10 / 90

My dear Mrs. Sewall -

[?] [?] [?] [?] I am
not man you took me for!
I cannot go to Washington, & have
never said or thought that I could go
If any wishes were horses, how
simply I would ride: but my feet
are fast in the stocks. Please
forgive whoever has deceived you
in this matter & congratulate your-
self that the long programme
will still be too short for all
who will want to speak. The
"Toasts" you offer me are
loathsome: I am greedy enough
to take both; and am therefore
sure you will suffer from
a plethora of talk.

I have just been making
the enclosed copy of some
line which my wife wants me
to send you for the banquet; She,