Gooch Family Papers (ViU)
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I have been confined to my room [. . .] day & to day & am not well enough to [. . .] much more than acknowledge the receipt of your letter. Your opinion upon Noah’s article <illegible> ^is^ such as I should have expected from you. I saw it a few moments before I left Nyork & my first impression was to write to our friends at Albany & advise them to rid us of all future... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Claiborne Watts Gooch
I ought to have written to you before to thank you for your kind & instructive letters, but you can well conceive how it is here. The truth is I have hardly time to read, much less to answer my letters, & I am so connected with a question that works itself into every thing, that I am more than ever disinclined to letter writing in regard to which my habits have, I am ashamed to say it,... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Claiborne Watts Gooch