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However, I am earning more. I lent Cos. Jos. A Stevens $30.00 which I directed him to send by letter to you, when he gets done with it. and I guess I will send $20.00 which I can safely spare, in this letter. Sometime when you get it, and have opportunity you may write how our Money account stands, if you please.

 I am very anxious to hear from you.The last I heard from you you remember was that you were sick or lame at Milo. Do write as soon as you receive this.
 Appearances certainly seem to show me as extremely fortunate or favored. I was certainly lucky in obtaining a situation and getting on so well Engineering on the Vermont & Mass. Then I guess it is rather a rare thing for an Engineer out thrown out of business to find employment within a week!

I would have been nothing strange, if indeed not probable at the present time, scarcity of money, and difficulty of starting new Rail Roads; if it had been a whole year before I could fine a tolerable situation. The uncertainty & difficulty of obtaining constant employment is commonly considered the worst thing about the business of Engineering.

 Whether I have ever answered your last letter to me is rather more than I can at present tell. I rather think however that I have. At any rate, it is your turn & time to write another now.
 I was on leaving Vt. & Mass. so uncertain about getting another situation: that a very good offer which I had had to change my business, begin to be almost a temptation to me. You see in my ministry I had made myself friends of the "Mammon of Unrighteousness"; or at least