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have just receivd your letter Eliab I feel somewhat distress'd about Joseph I have been expecting he would be sick Sorry he took a lobelia had much better came right home I sent your Pants Jacket and 2 pr stockings by Mr Severance last week I suppose you got them sameday you wrote to me - I couldnt make them very well with very coarse thick cloth but I guess theyll do, write to Isaac very soon he complains bitterly of neglect I send down a lot of butter most all of it very good that in the white box is super excellent but perhaps not quite salt enough to keep long I dont know how much there is it ought to be a 1//ath, I want you should give Ann $2 out of the avails of it if there is so much & you may have what is over if any __ we are knitting some gloves and stockings for J. and you - Give my love to Mrs Brown and thank her for me for taking care of my boys

 Dear Son Joseph  E. says you have been unwell I have expected it, that you are taking Lobelia I am afraid tis not best I think you need relaxation, rest, do now Joseph come right home you had better leave your work now a few days  than be oblig'd to leave it for months perhaps give it up entirely they can do without you a few days I know - I know that it is important for a young man to establish a character for attention to business  &c &c but attention to ones health is certainly more important if you are able to come home come you'll gain it in your business for you cant succeed in it if you are not well we have heard The Typhus fever is very prevalent ant very malignant in B. about this time - Do write to Isaac I feel very anxious about him not partly because he feels so nicely about building a school house dont know what to say but it seems that she must have a little help or her school must fail & C & you & E must help. C thinks perhaps he could get Gilman to go & do the work a dollar a day had n't you better come home with C I think you had They can get somebody else or do without a few days