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Harrison reports to former student Jones on the competition between the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies for senior class honors; he also informs Jones that Pres. Joseph Caldwell will soon leave for Europe to purchase books and a philosophical apparatus.
It is with sensible emotions of delight that I can avail myself of
this suitable opportunity of communicating a few lines to you. My delinquency
in the performance of our mutual agreement, in the support of a correspondence,
I hope will be overlooked and pardoned, as it dose not procede from any
intentional negligence, or disrespect. I should have written to you before this
advanced period of the Session, but deffered it until about the time, the
honerary speeches of the Senior Class were to be given. I therefore concluded
not to write until I should hear the final result. I am concious, that there
yet glows in your bosom, some remain of that
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