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tendency again! Whatever my sins and they are heavy and many have you ever found me a hypocrite? Every little act & word & courtesy bestowed upon you ws a spontaneous tribute of true platonic affection, and those marks of friendship are fact as pure and ready to be given you even as ever - [?] I wrote for I have a copy of the letter before me - Talmen said I could not care for you except as a friend and I say frankly that the more I see of you to more I am convinced of the truth of that statement." Is there any [crossed out] of diminished friendship in that? not yet you have twisted it about in your wrong headed little way as usual If it is not clear enough I will put it in other words: The more I see of your disposition and tempraments the more I am convinced that I could not [?] if any objection found us together; We would exercise the right to scratch each others eyes out in a year. Your many fine qualities command and hold my respect and affection which constitutes Sympathetic friendship and "once a friend always a friend" with me, whether misunderstanding takes parts