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                                                                                                           Turner. Nov 17th, 1845.

Dear Brother

  I received your last letter, dated at Milo, the first of this month, and intended to have answered it before, but have delayed it.
 I was glad to hear that you had been at Milo, though sorry that your visit was occasioned by ill health. The fact is, as I wrote to you last summer, you do not take exercise enough in the open air; You must try to do better in that respect I think: I know how it is exactly, you dont feel like it, and the less exercise you take, the less you feel inclined to take.
But let me advise you to make an effort to take some vigorous exercise, in the open air, even if you don't like it. It is really necessary for your health, more necessary for you, than it is for many others around you, those city chaps perhaps who have been brought up in indolence, or a large proportion of Country chaps, lazy fellows, sent into the store, cause they would not work etc. You now have long been habituated to labor. constant & vigorous labor, which habit, besides its naturalness, requires it.

Such changes of habits, of whole constitutions or systems of existence are not to be made with impunity.

 I will send you that money, if I can get the Bill changed, as I have it now by me, and can get along very comfortably, I think, till Spring. What I shall do for money, next June & August, I yet know not.