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Brother J.

  On consideration the importance of leaving plastering field now appears to me to guess that I write express to you at 5 o clock in the morning to beseech you to engage a man to do it this next week. I am very sorry to be under the necessity of troubling you with it but if you must attend to it sometime would it not be as convenient not at any other time. I want a little colouring put in the whitewash and a pint of varnish to prevent it from crumbling off. The entry needs a thorough plastering and time and suitable weather to dry, but which can be had now better than next Nov.
  Had it not better be done? I think so.