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New York Sept 22, 65
My Dear Chaplain as the case has been & now is, it only remains for Prof. Hopkins to do or not to do, - that's the question. Prof. Whipple has passed over to the acceptance of some other society the place allotted for the A.M. Assoc, & I have in connection with your letter given Prof. H. that fact.

Am glad of so favorable an opportunity to inform you, & to confess that my soft-impeachment for your delay was altogether out of place. Am glad to find I so wronged you. Please say to the Colonel, that I did him equally unjustly for which I am equally glad. Had rather be wrong than