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opportunities of learning. besides it is entirely contrary to custom for any one drawing tolerably good pay to do it with your pay your pay you ought not to write much more than 6 hours pr diem: A 300 $ Clerk commonly writes 12 hours or so & a youngster working for his board often as many as you say you do 11 Nov. The glory of finishing your job quick, is doubtless quite an inducement to ruin your health and break your neck in hurrying through it Still a dire degree of economy in husbanding the job has also its advantages

  I know nothing of either of the Books you mention Harpers New Monthly, is I doubt not of Merit, and Value, it is a good thing to have a well fill'd Game bag, even if one only "shoots folly as it flies" that I presume does rather more. I conclude from what few notices of them I have seen that the new Monthly is rather better than the International I have not yet seen either.

15th Ann has come home brought 3 No's of Harpers new Monthly left the others at the landing. Our Mr. Wilson has a call & is going to St. Johnsbury Vermont If you come home & by way of Boston would it be worthwhile to ask Some of the Big Bugs of Doctors there or at the Mass General Hospital what shall be done for or concerning me. You can state the case I remain in all respects as when you were here i.e. Slowly growing worser. Our Thanksgiving is 19. Dec. Joseph is so taken up with reading french (Telmache) to Ann that he wont tell me any thing more to write