Scott then confides: "Keep it to yourself for a month or two--I am engaged to be married to a lady in Massachusetts, who, much as I loved my former companion, will I trust, be not an unworthy successor to her. Mrs.

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Expressed his sympathy upon the death of Broadus's sister Caroline: "the sad intelligence conveyed in your letter touched a very tender cord [sic] in my bosom.