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but we have mutually lacked patience [underlined]. Let it be so no more. Study yourself, + know yourself; encourage all your good qualities + overcome the evil. You are passing an interesting stage of your life; a stage in which you will lay the foundation for what you are to be in time to come. Lay it firm, my son, + leave no un-sound + defective places in it. You know not how much I feel interested in your welfare. You seem to be part of my self, + I seem to feel, + think, + fear, + hope in [underlined] you, + for [underlined] you. In this tranfusion [?] of emotions, I am much of the time standing at the Desk of Denison + Co. writing + figuring, + doing many things that I think you have to do. The last thing I think of at night, + the first in the morning, is the state that you may be in, the question whether, or not, you are well, + happy. On this account, if you love me [underlined], take a double care of yourself [underlined] I wish, if you wish to be posted up about things, here, that you would question me upon all subjects that interest you, + I will answer you. Evening. Col. White has just been in + told me stan-ding of the vote in this town, as follows-- For Gov. Hubbard 156 " " Chandler 192 " " [?] 111 " " Crosby 31 [line drawn underneath names and numbers] Rep. to Cong. Loco ----250 " " Whig 136 Rep. to Leg. E. Atwood 178 " " H. Hutchinson 204.) If other towns in this Cong. Dis-trict have done as well as this Gilman (Whig) is elected. Hutchinson is 26 votes ahead of Atwood in this town, but Woodstock + Sum-ner which are classed with this town have elected A. probably.