My Dear Sir—
I have just received your letter from
There is so much to say to you it is difficult to take up the subject
of the deepest interest. Should you have reached the
Our disbursements now exceed $6000 in dollars— I fear you have disbursed double that sum in fatigue and constitution—When and how reimbursements will take place we must leave to tide and time.
I literally long to see you. Even if all be lost we shall have some
pleasurable excitement some sanguine tho' defered hope. These are
the feelings that render us boyafit in adversity and sweeten prosper-
I send you some
My prudence was well timed—If things are as you desire, we can now secure a population of a different cast one which would prosper any Country—
I am struggling along staggering under my load—some times ready to yield further effort—give up the world and seek some spot where I could be allowed the peace of mind necessary to look about me and to die —But hope springs eternal in the human Breast— opens new prospects to the desponding mind—and keeps alive the effort necessary to save us from dispair.
Your friend
Hoping soon to see you if your affairs will authorise it I remain as ever very truly yrs
I could not have got on but for
There will be some matasses on board the sloop Only Son-—take
such things as you may need—
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