I received your
letter of Sept 28th last night.
The tone of it made me feel very
bad, and went to bed with a sad
,heart, and thought much of you
through the night. I well know
that your situation for some time
has been a very sore and trying
one to you, and your situation at
Washington is truly a humiliating
one to your brave and noble nature
with all its sense of conscious
innocence or any just cause
for all this mental suffering,
but why envelop yourself in the
thick gloom of melancholy? and
refuse to be comforted by any of those
cheering thoughts that ought to
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