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with miscellaneous & scientific matter, which will be colateral aid in your profession - seek & cultivate in a manly way, such society as will improve yourself and aid you in obtaining business. - Be patient - and "do not haste to be rich", for in that haste there will be snares for your integrity & sources of disappointment & unhappiness which are now hidden from view. - Your brotherinlaws troubles & difficulties ought to be a warning to you. I still believe your haste to be married, has something to do with this impatience - you are both young - why then permit this incentive, to betray you into a false position? I paid your store bill to Matthew - and have sent one hundred dollars to Mr Wills without deducting the amount of it? This closes? the Drug contract. As to the legacy of 200 dollars to which you are entitled at Mothers death, I think it may be advised for defraying your necessary personal expenses but for the purchase of town Lots or any such thing, I as executor would neither consent to or advise its being advanced. Get clear of your late purchase and its responsibilities, and avoid for the future involving yourself in any such predicaments, as making a purchase until you know whence the funds are to come - or compelling your friends into the false position of either permitting your paper to be dishonored - or ? up funds with much labour, to be used for purposes which they disaprove. We are in usual health - I am much weaker than this time last year and more reduced in flesh. If the ensuing winter is as severe upon me as the last two have been, - you will escape one long such restraint & reproof as is contained in this short letter

from Your  Father