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in La Porte during these financial troubles & yet it is necessary for me to look closely after our interests. I wish I had you & the children to spend my evenings & nights with & I do not believe I should be as lonely as I now am but I suppose this is impossible. Board is very high & it is difficult to get board for a family in which there are children at any price. I have written to Erasmus offering to sell him five of our cows to pay what I owe him, we keeping the cows till Autumn & then selling them as his agent & if they brought more than enough to pay what we owe him & interest on it then we are to have the balance, but if less he is to receive the balance from us. If possible to pay him out of what I earn here I shall do it, or from our crops but if not I think those cows better be sold & pay it. Erasmus borrowed the money for us & is paying 10 per cent interest on it & I want to stop the interest. The cows I propose to sell are as