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La Fayette March 23/52 Dear Brother Nathan

                    Please find Enclosed ten dollar for the purpose of paying in part for Grave stones & Fence for our ? & etc. It was my intention I should have been prospered this season of doing or getting done the stones Myself and sending a draft for same to Sarah Jane but it is better for me to Contribute for that purpose together 

I have More Business than I can attend to and should have matter for Jessee if I had know where he was. As for You Brother if You throat & lungs are affected as You Say for my part I think it would be foolish to go to doctor ? for It will do You but little good Should rather set my Mental and Bodily labours aside and go to Havanna or some other warme Climate of Even temperature Tennessee Would be much better for You than the north. If our climate Was Even and free from ague. I would urge You to come here and do my Writing and Keep Your land and Buy some produce when it was low or some Young Cattle and hire them Kept as You can for 12/2 pr mouth You could Buy 100 Head of Yearling for #3,00