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letters, in which I set clown everything that happens 

 from morning to night, will prove very tiresome to you ; 

 but I have nothing else to write about. I am anxious 

 to get through, when I will return as fast as steam- 

 boats and railroads will carry me. 



ARBOR, August 20. 

 I snatch the few moments that are left me ere the 

 arrival of the stage that is to take me to Detroit to 

 complete my journal. I broke off, I think, late on 

 Thursday evening. On Friday I kept close to my 

 room until I had finished my letter to Chancellor Farns- 

 worth. I sallied out about 4 P. M., showed my letter 

 to Whipple, who approved it altogether and insisted 

 upon our calling on the governor and showing it to 

 him, in order that he might drive the committee a lit- 

 tle, if it should be necessary. The servant told us his 

 Excellency was not at home, but Whipple insisted 

 upon his looking into his private room, before he was 

 too confident. And there sure enough we found him. 

 Mason will be down erelong to take a wife. With 

 his approval, the letter was sent round to the chan- 

 cellor. Whipple, Pitcher, Houghton, and myself 

 spent the evening at the chancellor's residence, a very 

 pretty place. Mrs. Farnsworth is very ladylike and 

 agreeable. Both the chancellor and his lady are from 

 Vermont, and are more than usually intelligent. In 

 the morning I started alone for Ann Arbor, thirty 

 miles by railroad, and ten (the road not being com- 

 pleted) by stagecoach. I left Detroit at nine A. M. 

 (after going to the post office and being much disap- 

 pointed and grieved to find no letter, please tell the 

 doctor so), and reached this place about noon. The 

 location is really delightful, and in a very few years it 



