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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 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 [[]] 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.