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however melancholy it might get it is nevertheless some consolation that under the presence of such a disease which no art or skill could arrest or relieve, he was not permitted to linger a sad spectre of helplessness & insanity, tho' conscious of all w.h was going on - To such a mind as his such a state w.d have become more harassing & more painful & I would fain hope you will all submit with [indecipherable] some compromise [indecipherable] resignation.
To me it was indeed a painful circumstance than I could not attend or indeed as I wish'd (because I know it
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