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                                                             Turner Lower Street, Oct. 5th. 1845

Dear Brother

     I received your letter, with much pleasure, on Tuesday last 30th Ult. I was beginning to be almost provoked at your long silence. It seemed a long while since your last letter; time, you know always seems longer; when one has just gone in a new place among Strangers. The first two days I was here seemed longer than the last week, and the four weeks I have now been here longer than twice the time at College.

What do you mean by 'Is your watch good for anything?! Would I give $20,00 for a poor watch. It is the handsomest, Lepine Watch you ever saw, beyond all question, or any body else A perfect beauty. I suppose you ought perhaps to have bought a Patent Lever like Chum & others. Perhaps mine is just as good for a year or two, but a Lepine does not endure like a full jewelled Lever. a $32.00 one. It is of course as regular as Father Time himself. Mrs. Dresser threw a brush on it & broke the Crystal, a week ago sent it to Portland, got another, cost $.62 1/2, not half so pretty as the other, though it will not break so easy, both perfectly flat. first no rise even from the very edges. As for your Infinities. Arithmetically 3/9 = 333 - Algebraically, X = a/o, Geometrically y= B'X/A' Which last is a true infinity. A' & B' being the 2 diameters of a hyperbola, and of course neither of them having but one end! if indeed or they had as many as one end! The Equation is that of the Asymptotes of a hyperbola