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Dear Brother. This day is Jan. 29th This day after so long, ? page folded overhave I have I received my wages for the months of Nov &? page folded overEnclosed you will find. Fitchburg Bank XX. Letter E. ? page folded overNo E.Torrey Cashr. J Whitman July [2?] 1845 F. Perkins Prest. Of which $15.00 is ? page folded overyou. on Note, and interest probably some. Then that Value ? page folded overyours which I have. If there is "any thing over" the? page folded over a book which I wish you to purchase and send up to "Six Lectures on the Uses of the Lungs" by Samuel Sheldon? page folded over. If the book has another title it is 'Causes & Cure of Consumption. Remember, I am particular about the book. It may save valuable ? page folded over Probable cost $.50 cent, or thence forward to a dollar. I am impatient to hear how you survive these money? page folded over It here affirmed to be positively awful. Nothing like it ever known. Unfinished Rail roads are "all of a heap". drawing the business short as much as possible on this road they have even missed part of the Engineering Corps. I may congratulate myself upon being retained while others longer in service who might reasonably be supposed better are discharged. However the last rumor is that the prospect is they will be unable to weather it , will have to stop altogether. That would course throw Engineer as well as all others out of Employ, and might expect to see me down East before long. But I guess they will continue somehow to keep along, and probably if any do. If I thought a total ? page folded over probable I do not know but I should send you $40. instead of $25.00 I must spend $20 or so in clothing &c. And I was intending to direct $25.00 or 30.00 to purchase of Mathematical Instruments Engineer Books &c. Perhaps I better not do it until Times are surer. Pray write to me soon, on or before the 1st Prox

 This letter is not worth much, except for the  X X  but it will have to go.  I will try to do better another time Please write soon, send on the  Poetical effusions of which you wrote &c.  Yours,  Aff.  I.S.