History Of USA Joseph Story 3 Letter Philadelphia Hopkinson

3 letter sent by Joseph Hopkinson think difficult to translate

pisti, this is the best letter of the three. It is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hopkinson who is on a first name basis with Justice Story. If you can enlarge the image by scanning one half of the letter at a time, I think I'll be able to translate the text completely.

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Philad. Nov. 12 1833
-- This day I am 63 yrs old –

My dear Sir

I shall send you in a few days the sheets containing the Review of [Story's] "Commentaries [on the Constitution]" – I have endeavored to show to show their importance to everyone who wishes to be thoroughly acquainted with the character and principles of our government - And frankly they have never before been so fully explored. But I pray you to remember how little could be done with such a work in the space of the few pages allowed to each Article in a Review. You must say to me truly what you think of it.

I sent you a "National Gazette". I should like to know what you and [[Worcester??]] think of the argument of the article. "What and where is the Meaning". I have persuaded myself that it is very dissatisfactory and indeed condescending.

Yours faithfully
Joseph Hopkinson

[Ed. note: the second paragraph may be referring to a competing article relating to Constitutional interpretation, that is, the sources of meaning in the Constitution. In 1833 Story was a prominent professor at Harvard Law School.]

CJ:

I think the bracketed text in your response should be "Webster" (as in Daniel Webster, Senator and Statesman of Massachusetts) instead of Worcester.