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                                                                                                                              19th August

My Dear Son I have been greatly try'd about your straitened circumstances but it is not best to worry about it after all there is money enough in the world and I trust you'll be provided with all you absolutely need. If God in infinite mercy has seen fit to give you the pearl of great price even an interest in his Dear Son will he not with him freely give you all things not to be expected tho' without your own faithfulness and best exertion. Charles is calculating to sell steers and Donkey & will get some money if her can, & I think it is very possible that you might get the school at the Mills if you want it & perhaps a pritny? school - if there was not such bitter predudies against orthodoxy - it would be just the right thing for the school & a tolerable chance for you you could board at home some but dont depend upon it, be trying elsewhere. I want you should consider my son whether you had not better apply to the Education Society for assistance you will have to borrow Money I think & would'nt it be better to have it with so little trouble & without paying interest than to have it nobody knows where

 You say you have a good mind to get you a Coat I think you had better if you can get a good one at a fair price I think you must new one before commencement perhaps you'll have to give more than if you had the money in hand but I think it can be got somehow before you go back. C. thinks, & so do I that you had better be there next term if possible. Mary B.P. is going to Bangor next Tuesday & Ann March for Boston at the same time will stop a day or two in Bangor if they go with Mr. Cutts tis possible that C may be into to sell his steers - has talked some of going down with them but it will be very inconvenient for him to leave is work then or at any other time for that matter Tho' notwithstanding he has been sick & it has been such very bad weather he thinks he will get his grass cut before it will hurt very much. H. is not very stout nor very ambitious I guess C mov'd round him twice this forenoon besides cutting his corners he has him but two days work. And Samuel has been gone home sick 2 or 3 days. 
 The stage fare is but one dollar now & the stage comes from B. to Milo 3 times a week Monday Wednesday & Friday. C can pay Mr. C in Oats if he dont happen to be there

himself