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3279. FRIENDSHIP, Comforts of.—[further continued].

So long a time has
elapsed since we have been separated by
events, that your favor was like a letter from
the dead, and recalled to my memory very
dear recollections. My subsequent journey
through life has offered nothing which, in
comparison with those, is not cheerless and
dreary. It is a rich comfort sometimes to
look back on them.—
To T. Lomax. Washington ed. iv, 300. Ford ed., vii, 373.
(M. 1799)