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"Pay Roll." Your full & excellent letter or letters were by me duly received on the evening of Friday last Mar. 5th and received too to my great gratification I had been long expecting letters both from you & from Milo. They both finally came together. Yours was partly written sometime ago, about the time I began to expect it. Do you show my letters to Elias? & to Ann? And why do they not write? You say as to seeing your relatives in Mass & with the utmost nonchalance & unclear "probably I never shall" if you have got into to your old musty shail shell, & drawn your slime around you, and fairly dried or frozen in, is it yet absolutely certain that the sun unclear will shine, or the gentle rain, or the dens full again, to soften you out? You enquire why I do not have some thinner & finer ruled feathers? to write letters on. It would be well. It is unclear because I write on just