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Isaac Bradford, Sept. 2d 1849 Dear Brother, One or two of your letters have been received lately; not however until I thought I had waited an unreasonable time after sending two or three to you The first letter I received from you the other day via Goffstown. I suspect you must have pretty much worn out all your sleeves in writing! I can imagine you grinning over it all to your self now. Following out my directions with a vengeance, I should say! I suppose you spent thought, positive mental effort, enough in conjuring up that dream, or whatever you call it, to last a common man a year. Of course you can not expect me to puzzle my brains about it. The only thing "practical" I find about it is the extremely salient adv ice never to go to bed without an intention of getting up again. Well, when I have leisure sometime, I will consider of it! Is it a fact that it still remains dry weather Down East? Here we are having decidedly a wet time. There was a great rain here about the time I came back; causing a real freshet & considerable damage. Bradford Pond was suddenly three feet above summer level &c. Ever since then it has rained extremely easy here among the mountains. There have been two or three very rainy days, and showers very frequent, some of them very forceful. We calculate to get pretty wet about every other day. These Mountain showers pour right straight down in torrents I tell you - We have some difficulty in preserving our instruments safe from injury by the showers.