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& the children are. If you can write me a few words each mail telling me of yourself & the children & any thing else you desire & have ample time to it would satisfy me, I write you frequent & long letters, but I can take time to do so. I like to write to you for when my mind is not deeply occupied with my business it will constantly wander off to you & the children in your New England home. Sometimes the Mill matters so trouble me that I have no heart to write. David is very unhappy over them, unless he can soon arrange them so that he will see his way through I fear he will not live long. He borrowed $100 of S.J. Butler for his Mill Matters & being unable to pay it he tells him to take his watch which cost him I think $185. sometimes I almost rejoice that I was sick two years ago for if I had not