Letter

I write a line at 10 P.M. to say that all
remains the same so far as I am concerned, and to thank you
for yours of the 29th, rec’d today.

I certainly meant no disrespect to the Bernons
by alluding to our Burgundian origin in explanation of the adhesive-
ness, which may belong to any of the family. The French Protestants
were a noble race of men; and it was a dark day for France when they
were expelled from it. The overthrow of Protestantism in that country has
in all probability changed its destiny. I am glad to hear that more
information is to be received concerning our ancestor Gabriel B. He
was more than an ordinary man. Bishop Berkeley, you will recollect,
thanks him, in one of his letters, both for his prose & poetry. His name
was too good a one to be lost in this country. –

Dr Brownell has made an enlargement of the “full diet of
the prison”, which, he says, I have been “indulged”! He added six
very good oranges on Monday, requesting however that it might not be
mentioned that he had brought them! This is what the Millerites
would call a sign. –

In comparing the vision of the Psalms in
Book of Common Prayer with that in the Bible I find a considerable
variation. Some passages read much better in one; some in the other.
In the 14th Psalm of the Bible the 5th, 6th, & 7th verses (as given in the
Psalter) are omitted. How is this?