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 LETTER THIRTY.

3rd September, 1842.

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Your letter dated March 28th, 1842, was received, with four newspapers, about a month ago, at which time (as you will have learned by Clarinda's answer) your former letter of the date November 22nd, 1841, had not come to hand. It has, however, now reached us by the emigrant ship Theresa, which arrived a few days ago, after a passage of eight months from Plymouth. These two letters lay before us a frightful picture of affliction which you must have suffered during the last severe winter, and our grief receives additional bitterness from the reflection that we were at the same time having comparative ease and happiness, surrounded by all the

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