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we order, and we have separate apartments. This mode 

 of living unites retirement, independence, comfort, and 

 economy ; in short, it is just what Mr. Day, you and I 

 should have realized, if he had not deserted.* I am in the 

 midst of professors, lecturers, apparatus, and books, and 

 wholly devoted to my studies I am much satis 

 fied with my advantages here. I can tell you no news 

 except what you will learn from the papers. Peace and 

 security reign in this island, while human blood is flowing 

 in carnage almost unexampled on the Continent. I pray 

 God to preserve you, my dear Charles 



TO PROFESSOR J. L. KINGSLEY. 



EDINBURGH, January 29, 1806. 



YOUR favors of November 18 and 19 are before me; 

 they arrived on the 10th inst., accompanied by others from 

 Mr. Twining, Dr. Dwight, Mr. Whittelsey, Mr. Day, &c. 

 These letters afforded me a degree of pleasure of which you, 

 in the midst of your country and friends, can have no ade 

 quate conception. There was a period of five or six months 

 in the past summer and autumn, when I was almost with 

 out a letter. I had fretted myself quiet, and began to find 

 some consolation in despair ; when a flood of letters burst 

 in upon me, and has continued since to flow in a regular 

 stream, so that for a month past I have bathed in epis 

 tolary pleasures. I answered Mr. Twining's letter three 

 days ago. I wrote to Mr. Day and Mr. Denison on the 

 6th inst, before their last letters arrived, and shall delay 

 writing to them again till the next ship, especially as I 

 cannot give Mr. Day satisfactory information concerning 

 his apparatus, as my returns from London are behindhand. 

 You will remember me to these gentlemen, to the aca 

 demic board, and to all my friends, with every expression 

 of remembrance. And now as to your letters, there is 

 no doubt that they are genuine ; never did compositions 

 * A reference to his marriage. F. 



