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Looking at your letter, I find you ask the difference between 'Alter' & 'Amend' Have you not such a friend as Old Noah? However, the old chap is not an ?page folded over in? of mine. I scarcely remember now whether I obtained any ample knowledge of derivations, definitions from intuition, or from a smattering of Latin & Greek which ?page folded over in my boyhood. At any rate I think that, translated into Saxon. "Alter" is to"change" "Amend" to "change for the better". "Pray who is Nancy? One of my dearest friends, Miss Nancy B. Whitman of Turner, on the 1st of last month, became Mrs. E. Merrill Talbot of Portsmouth N.H. Her husband, formerly of Turnerville is an Engineer on Portsmouth & Concord. Now I think of it, & partly in reply to your request of advice as to whether I have, or had certain books, left in charge of my sister Lucy, who I suspect has been reading them with both pleasure & profit. I advise you to get & read, ?page folded over the three volumes of "Uphams Mental Philosophy" in order. Then "Straylands Moral ?page folded over Sec? then, if you please Bishop Butler. I want to convince you you had better but I hardly know what reasons to the contrary to argue against. I can think of nothing better for you. You may say "time". It does not take much time for a thinking man to read Upham & do it thoroughly. If there is in the world such a thing as "Science made easy" it is in those works of ?page folded over Upham. It is a style perhaps unequalled in English for simple beauty So plain you would think it required no thought at all. it does not to understand it; yet it expresses fully the thoughts of that by some called the Greats of Sciences, the Science of Mind. The style is easy & diffuse it is true, with ?page folded over apprnd? repetition perhaps; but still you might read many books & excite fewer ideas. Butter's Analogy is exactly different in point of style Is there not the Great command "Go ye into all the world & preach the gospel ye." Certain interrogatories. / Answers Am I a fool? / I think you are. How much & what lack of it? / Lack of Brains. What am I? / see above What ails me? / The very question I wished to ask! Acknowledge the receipt of your correct & business like acc. &c. Why did you send that note to me? Why not yourself destroy it? What is business form is such case? they keep it