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sorrow. I Enclose you at present a sum sufficient to meet your expenses out - leaving all business matters for further considerations until after your arrival here - do not sacrifice any of your pecuniary interest for the sake of getting into business prematurely. I am still uninformed as to the probable time when the Cherokee per capita money will be paid out. Not having any check or draft to remit, I send you herewith One Hundred and twenty dollars in Ky coupons, payable the 1st of July next, which you can exchange with some friend for money or dispose of at a small discount in bank to cover the interest on the money until they become due. The family are in usual health - with the exception of the gloom your misfortune has produced. The children grow finely and are playful as ever. All unite with me in sending much love to you -

                yours with high esteem -
                   John Ross

ps. at the request of my dear Mary you have also annexed a check on Wm M Caulley of Wilmington for twenty dollars on ? of her interest in the ? of property under his charge & agency .