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but the great thing as it appears to me is the risk you run of being sick & the disappointment and distress Albina has about it. I am so apprehensive that one or perhaps both of you are sick even now - we hear so much about the Cholera & besides how do you expect to escape having the fever & ague if you come from that warm climate just as the cold weather commences here - you ought to consider well Albinas feeling and in some way get her more reconciled to it, or else come right home

I want to know more what your expectations and plans are - if Isaac has got to be there all winter & sends for Nettie as he intends could you not come home and arrange matters & go back again with her - if you think it so greatly for your advantage to be there - but is it so - or is it partly because of your prosperity to keep staying where you are wherever it is. If it were not for Albinas feeling so bad and the fear of your being sick I should want you to stay on Isaacs account

left-hand side across page I dont know how you ought to manage with Walter he certainly has an easy time with George to do the work & as he has no place of his own I should think he would be glad to stay there all winter whether you come home, or not, but there ought to be some understanding about on what terms perhaps