Boston Friday evening

                                      [Sept. 19, 1845]

 

Dear Bradburn,

     I have been gone today—came home and have just learned to my astonishment from the Chronicle of this morning that the paper is discontinued…

 

[This letter is the same as another before, but looks like it was the first draft. Nothing that is different between the two is discernible b/c any differences have been crossed out.]