"Fulton, March 5th, 1853.

"Dear Friend:--
"Yesterday I heard from you by a friend

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"Mary has gone to Pennsylvania.

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"What we feared was, she would be again imprisoned, and hindered from
going to Pa. If her relatives and other friends knew of your intentions,
she would have been put under lock and key as sure as there are _mean
men_ in Fulton.

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"Professor, they were as mad as wild asses here about that 'resolution
of Smith's,' especially King's folks.

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I want your miniature--_must have it_. I want to show it to my friends
that they may see this man whose idle moments in the bower of love sets
half the world crazy.

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"In friendship, yours,