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EDITORS : 



January 1st. 1390. 



My dear Deane:-- 



You are certainly NOT out of my thoughts ,tho ugh I have by 

 my neglect given you reason perhaps to think so. I have been waiting 

 ever since the vacation begun trying to get tine to write you a MSS. "V 

 letter to ac company &m&- remembrance , but something has always prevent- 

 ed. I thought I ought to write at least once_ a year in my own chirog- 

 raphy,but I guess I shall ha . e to put you off as I do my wife with a 

 "printed" letter. She takes them in default of better, and you must 

 make the best of a bad bargain. It tires me so to write with a pen 

 now: no&mere muscular fatigue— rather mental, because I am all the 

 time thinking how much quicker I could rave written that word with 

 a type -writer. 



You call me facetiously and happily in your letter "busy B." You 

 do not believe I know that I am half so busy as I think I am, nor one- 

 quarter as much as I "let on". Well,may be I am not; but it as bad to 

 think that you are overrun with occupations as to be actually so --per- 

 haps wor e. Since the 4th of last March when I began the examination 

 tf Roll's collection I have put all my spare time on that work. What 

 spare time have I, do you ask ? Too little. I think you know that I 

 an Superintendent of the Sunday School, which involves some work and 

 often takes an evening. I have a standing engagement every Wednesday i 



