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? bushing of Frankfort was here yesterday wishes much for me to go to Frankfort and buy one half of his mill and go into business with him, at some times before this I should have considered such an offer to be a very first rate chance and it is now but I do not want to go and Mint? I shall be somewhat governed by my inclinations in the matter, The money for your mother shall be as you wish Eliab has I suppose lost about $600. on two vessels the past winter but I suppose he now feels rich and I hope that he is really so we expect him home in about one week The ice left the river the 5th inst harbor full of vessels business beginning to be brisk. We go by ships down on the seas people of a fearfull temperament will go only on rails Why do you not quit Engineering and go to lumbering; I have no doubt but that I could make two dollars in the lumbering business in Illinois as often as you can make less than that Engineering and have much less care and perplexity than you have You have no home and never can have one in your business. You are at the mercy of employers. you do well for a season and then for another season perhaps you are compelled to him in the interest of your money the principle being all spent first I think it must be amusing to a Penobscot man to see you Ill-noisans manufacture lumber. Why don't you tell your folks that they do not know anything? But I suppose you think if they know enough to build Rail Roads they must be wise. I suppose so. Folks all abed Good night - Love to Ettie S.W. Furber