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Joseph has before now inform'd you of his whereabouts and all about his journey he seems pleas'd with his situation and his Company. I was astonished that he should go from here to Bangor in one day and get from there to Waterford - crossed out Mornay the next. O that it might do him good but I have very serious fears that the benefit if there is any will only be temporary. He needs more Company & more to interest his mind than he has had a good deal of the time the past summer; i.e. when he has refrain'd from Study which he did with a great deal of Self denial after you were here except when he was studying up his "letter of Mischief,, as he call'd it. He has always been too ambitious I guess.
 Perhaps you'll think from his going such a journey and bearing his journey so well that he is a good deal better but I do not think that his limbs are any better but rather worse.
  A few days before he went away in consequence of getting his foot against the rug as he was going acrost the floor he fell I was not in the room but he said he had to crawl on his hands and knee till he could get to a chair before he could get up & then with great difficulty thought he should have to call for help _ But he has never been willing to be help'd if he could possibly get along without. He says that they can tell him in four weeks whether the "Treatment,, will help him or not