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[No. 20]

Mr Lucus Collage
March 18th,  1833

My beloved Brother
  I am ashamed of myself for having
allowed to long a time before without
thanking you for the many kind to hear
of ? sent me and 
above all for the affectionate note 
that acceptanced ? indeed
dearest.  ? my mind has been to
constantly agitate ? circumstances of
which it is ? of life ? into a ?
that I felt it impossible to write without
? gloomy nature
of my thoughts and as I will know
saw ?aciisful it is to be ? a letter
of their friend where the ? which have
? life that are probably ? away
I forgotten I ? 
? of a ? chasing nature.
I cannot say that ?

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