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That wish includes a [?] supplement of a
ride, & a call, & a nice time consequent, at Amherst.
But I will wait till the Minister's[?] vacation. This letter
[?] of a week's rest is refreshing, better. It has been
an autumn of very, very hard work, - incessant & absorbing; -
a [?] [?] of lectures, partly new; out of the old chapel
into the new one, with occasional sermons (you don't say you
got one I sent you); making a service[?]-book; - & many other
? & morning duties. The Fall has [?] away
like the wind. I am tired out. My brain is [?]: it
feels like a lump of dough. I wish you would come
& knead it into something nutritious. The other day I saw an Amherst graduate in Cambridge, who, on
being introduced, said he once spent an evening with us at yr