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of last year's price per ton. Good potatoes are probably worth about 50 per cent more this here, here, than last year.

I do not know whether you & Mr Kendal have been told that besides keeping under my control a great deal more money than I deserve I have had the pleasure of giving Jennie $104000 (a hundred &four thousand dollars) of UL5-20s for her to do whatever she likes with; & she furnishes & keeps house &c &c with it very well indeed.

Now as $54000 of Jennie's 5-20s are of 1862, & as there is talk of the American Government soon paying them off, I should feel obliged if Mr Kendall would kindly indicate to me; should he feel disposed to do so, what he thinks Jennie might conveniently & satisfactorily invest in if her Bonds should be paid off, & she were at a loss to know what to do with the money?

Nearly all the grain crops of this neighbourhood