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                                                                                                                                                   1845?
                                                                                                                        Bowd. Coll. June 11th. 1844 crossed out

Dear Brother

  I was gratified by receiving a letter from you, with two others from Lucy & Eliab, last Tuesday, June 7th, by the hand of E.L. Brown, for which please recept my heartiest thanks. As to your charge of 'aggravated misconduct in neglecting to write" if I am obliged to plead guilty 'de factor', I shall take the  liberty to recommend myself strongly to mercy, on the ground that I was entirely ignorant where to direct a letter to you. I heard you had been at Bangor, were going to Oldtown, thought of going to Boston, might go to Rutland, and I knew there was such a place as Mlilo. After receiving your letter. I wrote six or seven to the family at Milo & Bangor; and when I got back from Boston. I wrote one in a very large sheet of wrapping paper 12 by 20 inches, and  very well filled out too. You may consider yourself 'saved from deliverance' that you did not have to read it.  If you want to know about my visit to Boston however, Lucy I believe read it, & can tell you of it. 
 I am glad my letter arrived soon enough to prevent you from sending me any money by Brown, as on account of Mrs. Childs' benificence. I get along pleasantly without it.  I am very much obliged to you for your good wishes & your kind intentions in taking mercy on my pecuniary necessities.  I am getting along quite comfortably in such matters now, and I think prospects re fair for me to get along & get through now. I earned last term by wood sawing & building fires etc. enough to pay my board & perhaps $3,00 more, and shall this term too I guess. I have been appointed Steward of our Boarding Club, which pays $5.00. I brush the boards in the Math.