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                                                                                                     July 21st

My Dear Son you are rather severe upon I. S M - It is not very strange that after 3 or 4 years absence and close apphention to Study he should spend a few weeks or a few months even at home in enjoying and as it were acting over again the scenes of his childhood. I regret that he has not long ago made up his mind as to his future course of life I think it would have been better for him but he will I guess when he can get decided up on something & get family engag'd in it pursue it with alacrity and perseverance he has been helping L some about her Herbarium & has been at work some with Charles at Haying for which he calculate, to pay him and will I presume - it does rather appear to me that duty points him to the seminary at Bangor he could probably go through with the three years course there without getting in debt (he could by teaching 3 or 4 months this fall with both what C could help him pay up his bills) If his mind is right and he feels willing to do what duty requires he can in that way become a very useful and probably a talented Minister I can't see wherein he any better prospect of success or usefulness in any other course open to him at present. However I don't feel very anxious what he should do but I shall feel quick relieved when he has fairly got settled in something. 22nd Isaac starts tomorrow to go he knows not where and do he knows not what - talks that he shall from Brunswick go on to Mass. has been at home just 3 week, is that a very long time it doesn't seem so to me - the present is a most trying time for him I have no doubt - we have enquired about a "boy" I think that Moses Greenleaf is just the one -