OF

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REV. ALVAN HYDE, D. D.

OF

LEE, MASS.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY PERKINS, MARVIN, & CO.

PHILADELPHIA :

HENRY PERKINS.

1835.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS volume presents to the public the diary and letters of one whom the Lord honored as a useful laborer in his vineyard. As it was very remote from his feelings, while living, to seek his own glory, or to take any pre-eminence among his brethren, so it is no part of the design of the compiler of these papers, to exhibit him before his readers as an extraordinary man. In his diary, which is but little more than a brief notice annually,

of some of the providences of God toward him and his family, with his reflections upon them, are such feelings expressed as every man, under similar circumstances, may be supposed to indulge; and

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his letters are such, as grew out of the occasions that called them forth-the effusions of faithful friendship, or parental kindness.

It was at first designed to arrange all his letters according to the time in which they were written, but on examination, it was thought better to let his communications to his children, occupy a separate portion of the volume.