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Morrisville Vt. Dec. 6th./58? My dear Jennie:— More than a week has elapsed since I bade you adieu. which time I have devoted exclusively to my friends here at home. but now I am prepared to have a little chat with you— and would that it were in my power to place myself by your side. and have one of those real cozy chats which we have been wont to have. but it cannot be. so I may as well “make a virtue of necessity” and proceed at once. You know that it was with a sad sad heart that I left you. but it was no time for tears. So controling