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and for an apparent neglect of many little
requests you have at various times needed.
Indeed dearest Edward you can form but a
faint idea of the state of confusion into
which we are all plunged and  at present
there is little hope of a change for the better.
That a reaction will sooner or later take 
place I know; but then the lowness of the spirits
which succeeds these fearful fits of nastiness
is equally painful to his family worships
& from the jail experience of the last six
years I think we have every reason to dread
the death like calm which will inevitably
succeed the fhrenzy [ frenzy] of the present moment.
I will not mask an a subject so fearful
to us all nor should these mask any
allusions to it but
this I feel to me influenced
is due to you. & I cannot hear that you
should imagine I am so wrapped into today

[crossed lines]
so many mouths. & which I sometimes think is intended

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