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should thus attempt to injure me ; and it occurs to me that 

 surely there were many "great" and graver matters that 

 miffht have heen selected for the text to his Fast Day ser- 

 mon, -without a resort to this. 



Respectfully yours, 



Geo. p. Burnham. 



Melrose, April 9, 1855.^ 



This communication was hased upon the Transcript's re- 

 port ; and, in the mean time, Mr. Burnham addressed to the 

 Rev. Mr. Huntington, personally, the following letter, 

 which was delivered to him at his residence in Roxbury, 

 by a friend, on the afternoon of Monday, April 9th, and 

 which ran as follows : 



Russet House, Melrose, April 1th, 1855. 



F. D. Huntington, Boston. 



Rev. Sir : I was greatly surprised that you should have 

 had at your command (for your late "Fast Day" sermon) 

 a subject no more felicitous and appropriate for considera- 

 tion in the pulpit than that which you selected for Thurs- 

 day last ; and in the course of which you seized upon the 

 opportunity so uncharitably to attack my book and the 

 author of the " History of the Hen Fever." 



Of .^course, you never read the work. But you condemn 

 it in round terms, thus publicly, from the "sacred desk,." 

 tod,, ^^; an altogether mistaken zeal, you have been 

 pleaae**o- characterize, my ,,book as a. compound of disclosed. 



