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Milo July 10th 1847 My Dear Son. I began a letter to you a long time ago but as I did not finish it thought I'd wait till after the children came home, Friday we hir'd a horse and carriage for $ dollars & return'd Monday Mrs Brown was just going to Boston Miss Grimly did not come - we all had a real good time O that you could have been here rec'd your letter - account of journey back in due season was very glad thank you for it - Am sorry I've not written to you sooner can hardly give any sufficient reason why I have not - have thought of it and intended it almost every day you & Case walked to far or to fast perhaps - I do feel considerable anxiety about your health - not because it does not appear to be perfectly good now & likely to be so for years to come if you would only do right - but because you are certainly to presuming - As it appears, to me - you do wickedly tempt Providence - in such frequent irregularities in regard to Sleep - such exposure to wet (as working in the rain when here for instance) and extreme fatigue sometimes - Your College or Society Suppers must be awful things for the health - I do know that several times while you were here at home you did transgress the physical laws of your being (not by high living at all, at all) but by working, not sleeping & not waking early enough - If you should have one severe fit of sickness and then get to enjoy the most perfect health even, you would never be so careless in that respect as you are now - Charles has done nothing get about Insurance but means to & Albina will put him up to it We all talked, & talked a good deal about a Settlement Amicably of course tho' Joseph got almost vex'd sometimes - because he always wants to bring any business to a point at once you know - they made out to get C. to agree up on an Annuity of 50$ for 25 years the boys I believe made a memorandum