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Dear Waldo I grieve to hear our dear Charles cold dont give way. God restore him for the sake of Elizabeth & you & for that world w/h his principles may improve. Do send for your Mother if he don't mend im mediately Her care he needed when I was at your house his vigils & abstinence were scathing his bones.
Will the last [Friday]' Sarah [formed] a long even with me & after I had got all of her transcendable notions I told her of my abdic cation of your [fever/haven]. Like all great folks she neither pitied nor affected it - these things are like bubbles w/h form & burst beneath eternal [..mes] Truth - she did request - & what a little surprised tho I felt as
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prepared for every extravagance in the present a [list] of reformation, said she should no more think of a promise [made] in a heat than if she had said she would kill one. I do not report the promise only [out] being sooner - and like the intercourse of friendship if you choose on the present footing. At this view she was satisfied and I with the condition that you will never trifle with any [premise-promise]. But as to doing with out you, my dear W, myself re mains as poor Media said, And when the dreams of ambi tion of a moral or mental nature are dissolved before forming present connections - these may be tempered to the shadows which pass over a ruin when the owners stands alone and says he is still rich tho the
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[whereabouts] is game. I have striven to get some fuel from this vague transcendentalism to add to any other [decaying fire] wished that was the hallucinattions of an A Scott could [unsuffuse] [thine] spirit that dwells on the confines of matter & spirit to be a glow worm in my twilight -
But better to keep on perhaps in the cold paths of [overuse] & have those [worst] things w/h belong to their Author. To submit to these contradictions in our nature w/h failed us to rest in an Absolute Aent or in the finite - w/h present so muc discipline - united is the fort and the mystic question as will as will as practical.[?reworks]. Love to you wife & sister. Let me know what Sr [Peham] said and how CC does & you will add another four to your afft Aunt. MME
