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Milo June 1st ---45
My Dear Son We had a paper from you on the envelope of which you said you thought of going to Boston in vacation which we receiv'd just after we had written to you - we sent a paper to you just after receiving yours requesting you to call on Mrs. Child and on your cousin Humphrey Stevens but from the letters we receiv'd since ( by E.L. Brown) I suppose you did not get before you started for Boston - hope you had a good journey and a safe return hope you call'd on Mrs. Childs I do regret exceedingly that you could not have had some more money I am sure you must need a new coat very much indeed and many other things besides I hope you did borrow some i.e. if you could for it was such a good opportunity to purchase what you must here - I did very much hope that Charles would be able to send you some he has sold several little lots of Hay 1/2 ton or less in a place but had only got money enough to pay Everetts demand (which was the remainder of Alfred Holmans wages). The Pubbcan is denying him by the way they will not remit your tax & C. has agreed to pay it. He means to sell both yoke of oxen in the fall and the Donkey. he has got his crops into the ground in good order & if they do well I do think that he will make out to "wiggle out,, as Mother says those little Debts that have bother'd him by next fall and help you to some money besides. Our hir'd man is Samuel Hobbs he is a modest unabh? pleasant fellow, faithful and steady about his work but nit as dexterous quite as my boys I think Mr. Gilmans family have been sick his wife has had a babe and has lately buried it - we expect him here in a few days. Joseph borrow'd an old knapsack of Mo Bilington pack'd up a change of linnen in his "notions,, and started of to seek his fortune [characteristic] May 21st. I have heard nothing from him since except that he was in Bangor on the 28th I am rather impatient to know what he is about - his original declamation examination day was thought much I dont know but it must have been better if he had taken the College course instead of you - you seem to talk that study is rather irksome to you at which I am surpris'd and at first could no way recount for it - but I have considered it and the reason appears obvious you did not when young discipline your mind as Joseph did he can fix his mind at will & for any length of time - you may perhaps recollect how many times we have warned you against so much desultory reading is it not reading to much now that unfits your mind for close study or is your health not good - you have perhaps tasked your mind to hard in some way or other - how would you enjoy yourself if depriv'd of Books, entirely for those months. 3rd Mr. Gilman has come here today we shall have the back room shed & piazza etc. done but I dont think he will stop now to finish the parlour & perhaps not the chambers Eben Greenleaf has come to live with Mr. Lee has bought the farm I believe. Arnold Sargent's wife is dead. Lucy is going off tomorrow to teach the school that you did last winter. Mr. Pomroy you know is going to Europe. Ann has been spending 3 weeks at Bangor. We expect Mary B. Pomroy to board with us this summer and take lessons of Ann. Almeda gets along nicely with her affairs. C. has got one acre of Corn & one of potatos in the next past. of the north field very highly manur'd 3 acres of Oat that he thinks much of near the "Cattact,, Swamp and I dont know how much on the uper end of the intervale and the upper lot some wheat & Oak & peas I believe he has done Almeda's plowing & sowing. I send you a pr of shirts not in very good condition for we have been very much "driv,, fixing Joseph away and Lucy all of a sudden - we thought best not to be put linen bosom in the shirts lest they should not be right would have made a pr to send with them but had not time it grieves me sadly that I cannot send you some money - but trust in the Lord and do good and verily thou shalt be fed.