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My Dear Henry Boston May 18. 1858
Your long looked for letter came to
hand to day, and I know it is a shame you have
not written to me before, and as you know it and
acknowledge it why all right. we will begin again
and do better. As to your being blue you can't help
it I suppose, if you was ever so [?] you made
be so it is constitutional. I am sorry it is so. Nobody
more so. for I have a number of the same family
under my care and she gets blue. so when you
have the blues you can just think that it is not
in consequence of hard times or dull sales of lumber
but a disease and must be treated for, like
other diseases, perhaps with medicine, perhaps,
with roses, or something else I can't tell, just
what suit you best. find out what will
cheer you up and then go in for it. always
provided the thing desired is legitimate and
proper.
Marcus's pay is 3000. per annum and must
give up all other business, he has given up his
office in Boston and has furnised a room in
his house for a library & c. he work quite like a