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my being away from
home and some trouble
about this collection
– tho’ if at home it
would be the same
perhaps –

I write to you now
to say I hope you will
not be borrowing trouble
lest I am in any serious
trouble – ‘tis only to get
your advice I wrote or
I would not have
mentioned it before –

I have been thinking
to-day that I have
permitted this fear of not
getting a good collection
to worry me and have
determined not to let
it do so any more –
In fact I suppose I am
doing pretty well and
considering the bad weather
very well