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of this [?]sh and first of next. Samuel might have called at [?] if you had been to be there. I might have sent some money to you by him. You might have gone on with him to go to Brownsville to visit a [?]. As it is so [?] about my going on at all, or if I should [?] my stopping [?]. And judging from a letter Charles received from Almeda yesterday there is little or no [?] of her coming [?] this fall. She said she could [?] any [?] come with Samuel for she could not at all [?] in hot weather. And the state of [?]'s (James' wife's) health was such it was very dreadful if she could leave at all. She is [?] [?] with consumption I guess.Sincerely, Isaac.