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Bowd. Coll. Feb. 15th, 1846 Dear Sister I believe you owe me a letter already, for I think I have written to you at least once since you have to me. Moreover I do not know as I have any thing particular to write at this present time, except that I have just got back to College after nearly a Six months absence, earning money all the time, and find myself quite as poor underlined as ever. You can hardly have an idea what a place this is to spend money in. No one can be more economical than I am, at any rate, without being more miserablyunderlined meanunderlined than anyunderlineddecentunderlined person canunderlined be. I have earned about $100.00 since leaving College last fall and am now at least $50.00 in debt, I suppose. I tell you nobody but a College Student knows what it is to be poor. I had not even the most distant appreciation of poverty before I came to College. What is poverty? unsuppliedunderlinedwants. To feel ones wantsunderlined -- necessitiesunderlined, increasing multiplying, & growing greater, and at the Same time the means of supplying those wantsunderlined growing Small smaller & narrower. By wantsunderlined I do not mean wishesunderlined but actual, absolute, pressing necessities.last four words underlined.