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Well Joseph you said something in your last letter, about my doing most of the correspondence, as your business pressed this Summer. If you are any more pressed than I am nowadays, you are altogether too much, thats all you know or remember what I told you about so exclusive devotion to business such entire & exhausting giving up one's self to care; it is wrong. You ought not to do it, you must not, cannot do it I am anxious to hear how you are getting along; how you succeed in weathering the pecuniary difficulties so thick among you all when I was there. Has Charles been able to do any thing for you. Probably Money is easier, & perhaps business better by this time. How is Eliab's health likely to hold out this summer? as well as your own? Have you changed your boarding place? or how do you like better?

[upside down] Metcalf May 28 1848 National purse. Order of progression. Gen. Cass. Matrimony. Able Man. Greely & N.Y. Tribune