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[18]51 March 16 . William [C. Swain] ALS to [Ellis McDuffee]; Newburyport, [Massachusetts].

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Box 2
Abstract:
Jests about his "aged Friend" and the likelihood he will soon be "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing." Bemoans Ellis's straying from the "narrow path of virtue," blaming it on "the temptations and stumbling blocks, alias pretty girls, the Evil One is continually casting in the way of nice, virtuous young men." Continues to hold "a poor opinion of anything of the woman kind." Comments on a local young man and the indefinite postponement of the Town Hall's dedication. Offended that Ellis did not visit due to the state of his clothes. Waves off questions regarding matrimony. Asks Ellis's opinion of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
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4 pages

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