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2869. FAMILY, Thoughts of.—

Environed
here in scenes of constant torment,
malice, and obloquy, worn down in a station
where no effort to render service can avail
anything, I feel not that existence is a blessing,
but when something recalls my mind
to my family or farm.—
To Mary Jefferson Eppes. D. L. J.256.
(Feb. 1799)