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Easthampton, Mass. January 19, 1874.

Dear General,

                  Again I have neglected yr. letter for weeks and it is little apology to say that I am getting to treat all my correspondents in that way of late.
    With an average of full seven hours of confining labor instruction [strike] daily, at the Seminary most all of it Drawing & Penmanship, besides being obliged to prepare for this work out [underline] of hours, you may imagine that I get about enough of my pencil and pen officially, [underline] and so when my hours for recreation and rest do come Sundays especially which I have so long given to freindly letter writing,- I find myself, or rather my hand, very little inclined that way.