Letter to Almon Whiting Babbitt, 21 January 1850
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Cambridgeport Mass Jan 21st 1850
Dear Sir
Yours of Jan 16th has just come to hand and I
must Confess that I am much surprised at its contents and
do not understand it. and I feel think it needs some wisdom
to answer such letters in a right & proper manner lest misun-
derstanding arise of an unpleasant nature between men who are
endeavoring to bring to pass the same object. It it's is also often more
difficult to explain many matters and things by Letter writing than it
is in personal Conversation, However I will venture to come to the subjet
you say you have not recieved a letter from "any one haveing influenc
in the Ch[ur]ch" "Or from any leading men in the Chuch" Now I may
not be a proper judge what amount of influence I may have in the Ch[ur]ch
Still I believe I have some and have endeoved [endeavored] to use that influenc for
the general good of the whole to the best of my ability" I wrote you
a letter by Dr Bernhisel who was going Direct to Washington to cooperate
(as I supposed) with you) for the vary purpose of laying a foudations to Correspond
with you. The following was the closing remarks "I should essteem it
a great favor to meet in council with you & Dr. Bernhisel at Washington
but do not now expet to have the oppertunity" I should take it as a
faver if you would write to me occasinally and infore me of your
progress & prospets" This letter you recieved. On my I also
addressed a short note to you while at New York as a Letter of
introduction of Mr Copway who was expeting to go [illegible] to Washington
you may not have reci[ev]ed it. After being absent from Home on
my Western tour two months during which time I addessed
assemblies of some kind almost every evening during my absence &
tracting constantly by day, I arved home wearried out whae I fo[un]d
