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5953. NEWSPAPERS, Indifference to.—[continued].

I have almost ceased to
read newspapers. Mine remain in our post
office a week or ten days, sometimes, unasked
for. I find more amusement in studies
to which I was always attached, and from
which I was dragged by the events of the
times in which I have happened to live.—
To Thomas Leiper. Washington ed. vi, 466. Ford ed., ix, 521.
(M. 1815)