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your other piece I sent with due care
in my letter to Sarah. I hope she did not
keep any herself with her accustomed
greediness. - I shall soon begin to think
that I am popular with the ladies
from the fact that I have recieved six or seven
valentines this morning. They were all as
is usually such note are filled with
copied pieces of poetry praising black
eyes (which everybody knows, I never had) which
as one said resemble sparkling orbs.
One would think that they were all on the
point of death because their love was not
recipricated if he believed their [heretical?]
statements. Under such circumstances I did
just as I did last year send none at
all. - I am now engaged in writing
composition upon "genius and talent,"
It will not be the best composition I
ever wrote I think owing no doubt in
a great degree to the nature of the subject

I shall have to make that old
request for money, Would that the
gold mines were near Andover so as to
save me from making such a request
but it is as it is. Mr Downes wants some
money soon at least he hinted very delicately
that he should like some soon. At the close