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[transcription of darker blue paper text only as the text on the lighter paper appears two pages back] tendency of your mind is rather to fire itself in some point to a pivot, while you examine minutely and closely at belonging to that point. I do not mean that you do not take comprehensive views or an extensive view- few have made more acquisitions than you with the same time at command- but you are in the habit of confusing the mind too much I fear especially for your present health- there is a hint of versatility of mind which is more natural to Isaac than to you, and which it appears to me it would be beneficial to you now to cultivate by. variety and lightness in the character of your reading, and especially by free intercourse with other minds in easy conversation which though irksome at first, can by habit become agreeable. Ann.