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clock, until daylight, which was the cause of our arriving here at so late an hour. We left Cincinti, landing soon after I left you yesterday I had just time to call at two of the Insurance offices, where I had business and get on board the boat before she was ready to leave.

I hope Mother will succeed in getting "Nancy and her clan out of the House in the Alley, and if so, say to Mother for me, not to be in to great a hurry about getting a new Tenant, but make such repairs as she may think proper, and then rent it all to one person for a boarding House or to two smaller families, whichever will pay best. If she can let in either case to have the rent unclear in advance Monthly, on quarterly, it will save her a great deal of trouble and anxiety. I would strongly recommend it, if she has to let the House lay idle for a month or more to procure such Tenants. I have just heard by the Steamer "Harkaway" that she left the "Goddess" in N. Orleans & would probably leave about the time I expected.