Letter received : Brunswick, Me., 1839 June 17.

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Letter received : Brunswick, Me., 1839 June 17.

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The letter to Weston, a student at Bowdoin College (Class of 1840), was sent by a former classmate and current student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, whose identity has not been determined; his initials appear to be "E.B.W." The letter writer remarks on Bowdoin campus life, students such as Edward Howe and Francis Dudley Ladd (Class of 1841), says he respected William Clark Larrabee, but not Benjamin Franklin Tefft, whom he regards as "contemptible, narrow minded, bigoted, conceited, egotistical and shallow-pated," in a reference to the politics of the Methodist Church in Maine. The writer, from Livermore, Maine, mentions that Timothy Howe has passed the bar and opened an office, and suggests that after graduation he might join his brother in Wisconsin to practice law, instead of moving to the south. He warmly invites Weston to visit him in Maine - "we will have a great time" - and expresses his love for the study of law - "as a science it is great, grand, glorious." He lastly inquires whether Weston had seen the letter of John Quincy Adams to his constituents on the subject of presenting petitions and abolition, "By the way, are you tainted with the latter, pestilential excrescence?," and signs himself, "I am, most truly, thine."

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Boston Athenaeum

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Harvard Law School

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