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4 Blake has been confined to his room with a sore throat for some days past, and Stein, poor little Hebrew has been quite
sick but is doing finely now. I have taken care of him for the past four days and my treatment has been so emuiently successful
that I am led to think I have mistaken my profession and had better become a disciple of Sesculapuis than to follow Blackstone
Kent. Your inquiry about the prosperity of the churches. I am hardly prepared to answer as I attend non but the Baptist. it
is however in a prosperous condition. The first Sabbath of this term Mr Johnson admitted nearly twenty numbers, and some have
been taken in since. You counsel me not to forget the things of Eternity. Be assured that I do not - but as you well know
the influences surrounding me here are terrible as well in their effects as in their nature. But I trust it is not all down
hill with me, after all. Accept my kindest wishes and believe me Yours etc. J. L. Heigh? . 633 Patrick says he sent
the boxes more than a month since, and that the Ann Arbor direction was carefully erased with a p illegible 1 Madison
Wis. Nov. 14th 1863. Dear Muir, Better late than never , re an adage applicable as well to epistolary correspondence as to
most other human affairs, and your letter came just in time to save your reputation for truth and vesacity I should have written
to spur you up but I did not know where to direct. We are jogging along in the good old style here on the hill. The term is
a full one and thus far very pleasant. There have been in all about two hundred and thirty students about equally divided
as to sex. We wind up in about ten days more and then for my writers work. 00340