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Albany Febry 24th 8/12 Rev C S Kingsley Dear Bro Your Kind farm? of the 18th unclear was duly recd and would have been answered sooner but for my absence at Lebanon I now make haste unclear Your letter, while it pained me deeply, nevertheless gave some comfort. The assurances you give of your friendship & fidelity to me, as a christian brother is to me a source of consolation & for which in return I tender you my sincerest gratitude & thanks. It is a matter of dup affliction to me. To know that there are those who are displeased to talk about Thing with which they are unacquainted and unclear to me that which is disreputable and of which I am not guilty, especially at a time when I am strugling to do the very best I can to extricate my self from trouble and embarrassment, and when the facts in connection with each and all of the transactions