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Canton Decb 29 1848
Dr Arvine
I was much gratified to received your kind
Epistle and highly pleased to find you so much in love
with Old Harvard- I suppose you are still enjoying that
intellectual feast about which you wrote- I wish I could
be there to enjoy them with you- But Providence has
otherwise ruled, and I must remain here to spell out
by the books, and the dim light of Nature, What little of
legal lore I can- though deprived in my court of legal
studies of those privileges you enjoy. I do not feel envious,
but, on the contrary, rejoice at your good fortune. I like
to see those coming into the profession come in with
a full armor on, prepared to do honor to the
profession. I now have a student, William Loutzen=
heiser, son of Judge Loutzenheiser, who intends as soon as
admitted to spend a year or two at Cambridge- He is
a fine student, understands well what he reads. Such
are the young men I like to see come into the profession.
men who intend to Master it, and do honor to the cause
not these lazy drones, who are either to sluggish to
read, or else expect to rise by force of their great genius
on the great lights of nature But enough of this- for it
may be said, that I am misanthropic for the want
of genius. What acquaintances have you
formed in the beautiful city of Boston? Or do you
exclude yourself from society, and wholly immerse
