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                                                                                                          Situation at Section Engineer on N.H. Central R.R. 
                                                                                                           Anchor Ice. Macauley's Hist. England. Medical advice, Monetary condition,
                                                                                                            against low spirits etc. Compliments by mental character etc. Care of health
                                                                                                                                            Apr 8 1849
                                                                                             "Parkers", West Goffstown N.H. April 8th 1849

Dear Brother Joseph Your last letter dated Milo, March 8th has finally been received. It was mailed at Bangor, I suppose, received in due course of Mail at Grouts. Remailed there, March 20thm for Bangor, there remailed again, March 29th for Goffstown. N.H. and finally brought to me in War N.H. April 2d or 3d. Went the rounds. Eliab hardly knew what to think when he found Letters found Letters for me in the Bangor Post Office, Mailed from Grouts! before any one there suspected I had left Grouts.

 I am just now in an extreme quandary. I have very unexpectedly got a situation here on the New Hampshire Central Rail Road. Mr. Chase, the Chief Engineer likes me; put all confidence in me, Offers to do very well by me; and is very anxious I should stay.  I have just begun to get a good deal intoxicated in the Line, getting acquainted with the people & I like the Country and the stopping places. Every thing much preferable to my places in Mass. and cheaper too. Moreover, it is a Long Route, Only twenty five miles of it is to be built this season, but the road will undoubted eventually extend clear across the State to Winsor, Vermont. This will make quite a job of it, and if I am fortunate & satisfactory it may be quite a permanent situation. I hate badly to just begin any thing & then quit. The beginning  is all the disagreeable. That is one horn of the dilemma, and certainly very plausible. The other is this. Mr. A.R. Field, my old Vt. & Mass. Superior, with whom I have always been, and who has always done every thing in his power for me & helped me forward all he could; and  whose eulogistic recommendation procured me this situation.~ This Mr. Field Esq. has just been appointed to the charge of the "Ashuelot R.R." from Keene to Winchester N.H. 15 Mls.