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Friday Morning
March 19 1864
Prof. M P. Jewett
Sir The note you handed me yesterday morning
and of yesterday date accompanied with explanation and appologies
you then made seem to demand from me some reply thro1 the same
medium and permit me in the way of a preliminary that after sleep-
one day,
ing over it one night and reflection upon with-a-sincere prayers to my
Heavenly Father to direct me aright, I this morning place some thoughts
before for your consideration.
Alluding as I did in that conversation to the circumstances
that led to our early -ae% intimate and warm attachment continuing
thro f,a course of several years, and ending in the noble enterprise of
Building a College for the elevation of Woman, and altho frequently
interrupted by opposite arguments for the purpose eliciting truths and
Strenghthen & not weaken the conception I little thought that you would
or could as a Christian Man calmly set down in your study and deliber-
ately pen and forward to a Member of our Board of Trustees, such a
cool and unblushing Slander & falsehood as said letter contained, which
only fell into my hands by a Providential circumstance.
Yet after hearing your explanation of yesterday and seeing your
Contrition for the consequences and your seemingly heart felt appolog
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