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Sylvanville, Occident, June 1st, 1842.

', – Dear Sir, At my decession from you; your final alloquy, and concinnous deport laid me under a reasonable obstriction to impart to you, a pantography of the occidental domain upon which I had placed my ophthalmic organs. I now merge my plumous implement of chirography into the atramental fluid, to exonerate myself of that obstriction. From my earliest juvenility, I possessed an indomitable proclivity to lead those that are given to the lection of my lucubrations, to the inception of occurrences. And it would be a dilucid evagation from my accustomary route, would I not now insist upon a regression of your mind to the locality where we imparted mutual valedictions.

Of the causation of my migration to peregrine regions, you have complete cognoscence. It is not unkent to you that my commorance was conterminous to the maritime sections of this splendrous Republic, where the spissitude of population and the celsitude of the means of the sustentation of vitality, necessitated those who had by invincible difficulties, become depauperated, to make an ingress into the sylvan nooks of our untenanted domain. Often I could not evitate the emission of the most gravid suspirations in view of the atrabilarious aspect of our natal vicinity, and of the unstaying approximation of the detorsion from the ( 11 )