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But it is not very likely perhaps that I can get such a situation right away; There are many who want just such situations. And as long as it is the influence of rich men, R.R. Directors &c. which procures situations for relatives & favorites, rather than real fitness, education, or abilities; I am perhaps not very likely to succeed; at the said Rich men's influence happens to be the very article in which I am poorest; more so even than in money, for that I can earn. The other there are two ways in which people possess it. Most who have it, have it by right of birth: that I certainly have not. Some can obtain it by that sort of "faculty for good graces" which some possess, or by "bending the pliant hinges of the knee, where thrift may follow fawning!" With the first I take it nature has not gifted me; if indeed it be any thing different from the latter, for which I am far too independent to try. This day is Sabbath, July 10th, One week from Tuesday, or the 24th I shall get through with Bowdoin College. If I should go home should probably go in the course of that week, in about one week after this letter will reach you. If I can find any thing to do I shall not go home; if I cannot, perhaps I shall, though if I had a little money I thing I should go to Mass. first. I have been pulling all the strings I knew how to get hold of, only three or four, to try to get upon a R. Road, immediately. I had a letter from Uncle Joseph Stevens a short time since I wrote to him about the R.R. business there. He wrote as soon as he got my letter, very kindly, approved my ideas, if he could do any thing for me he would try. The engineers had left his vicinity, but he was acquainted with some, on other roads &c. He would see some of them &c.