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Milo Jan'y 19th /46. Very Dear Brother We rec'd your good long, and of course most acceptable and welcome letter, mailed Dec. 30th, in due season, and I assure you I had not the slightest inclination to dodge the "Missile". My "dented head" will rather keep its wanted place, daring, or rather inviting, another shaft. Only a day or two before receiving yours, I had dispatched a long epistle to you, which I suppose you had not received when you wrote; as if you had, you might perhaps have softened in some degree, the severity of your rebuke on letter writing; which, however, I acknowledge, is just; - though I have one plea to make, which I think not unreasonable. I cannot bear to write without good Stationary, & our Ink, on account of being frozen, had been so pale I could hardly see my letters after they were made. I did think I would not write another letter till Charles has been to Bangor & got a new supply, but Mother received a letter from Uncle Joseph yesterday containing a substantial token of his kind wishes for you in the shape of the enclosed V, for "Pocket Money" as he said. Is'nt it a little singular that you receive so many little helps from one source and another, just as you need them? Does not that seem to show that you did right in going to College? So it seemeth to me. Cousin Joseph Addison was married New Year's day to Jane Wells, of Shelburne. Humphrey and all