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of the situation. I have been
so dreadfully pressed with
the many matters to which
attention has had to [be] given
from day to day, and am
so frightfully fatigued, that
it has become impossible
either to prepare for what
is necessary in debate as
one should, or to be able
to guage [sic] the adequacy or effect of
ones words. Your reassurance
is therefore a great relief
to my mind.

I was immensely pleased
at the way in which the party