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April 22d, Your Letter of April 14th &c. is received yesterday. I hardly know just what to write to you. Your letter troubled me very much, and I have been thinking of it ever since. To be sure the subjects you advert to are very proper for any one at anyone at any time. It is every one's duty to attend to their will & every thing therewith connected. I shall attend to mine as soon as I have any property &c. I have been thinking for a year or two of certain final requests &c. I wished to be understood in case of accident or evil. But what do you mean by an "impression" that you are not to be much more an "actor in the world". Have you any right to such an impression? You say you may have more reason than I suppose. If there is any ground pray explain it. You have a constitution better than most even of those who live to Old Age; you have probably nearly injured it less than most of your age. by fewer irregularities & injurious habits. You are now suffering under an attack occasioned by some injury, which however I cannot see to injure your prospect of a long & eminently useful existence here. Your bodily health, I see no reason to think will not be as good as it ever was within a few months. As for mental Health which you mention, probably be?a? ever enjoyed a greater share than you. This is both hereditary, natural, educational, and cultivated. Yours is eminently a sound minded race; the whole history of both roots of the family is conclusive. Metcalf's & Stevenss will uniformly be found both sound & strong, compared with those about them. In yourself centre these qualities in a rather unusual degree. Your mind is singularly well balanced. Among young men of my acquaintance, there is no mind of equal practical widsom. I do not say this in flattery, but in fact, the lessons of wisdom which I am learning year by year from experience, and I feel too learning faster