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                                                                                                                       19th Feb Saturday night 10 o' clock

Ever Dear son Eliab Have made one pair of your shirts the coarse ones we have been rather busy this week but wanted to, and did finish one for because of such a good opportunity to send em - your thread was hardly good enough & not enough of it but it is just as well as we had enough.

Lucy is the girl to make bosoms & collars I wish you would

look at Josephs and just see how nice they are.

Any time when you or Joseph want shirts (not if they have

linen Bosoms tho') I should esteem it a privilege to make them.

In regard to settlement that Joseph said something about

what can I say or do - hadn't I better let it all go I doubt not that C. would willingly supply me with whatever he thinks. I need as long as I live if he has the means of doing it even if it should take a much greater amount of property than belongs to me. He may not always, feel so but I guess he would.

Perhaps I had better leave it all with him - Trusting -

He is in the hands of an overruling God.

If I should live to see the time when I cannot labor I might

feel more dependant than would be agreeable to such a proud spirit as mine - but if it is best I think I can bring myself to it - We have said almost nothing about it since last July and have hardly thought it (I don't love to think of it) but as I am upon it I'll answer Josephs question as far as I can - The title is rested in me without any mortgage or draw back, is legally perfected by registry.

I have an impression that the note was for 12 hundred dollars

and that it was given 10 or more years since but I have not seen it since nor said anything about it or known where it is - it was witness'd I think by Henry B Sargent. It isn't best to think it a matter of any consequence for you all know that I cannot be willing to have anything like grand or hard thoughts

Will you take an early opp to return this as I wish to reply to it now while flush of leisure & short of cash.