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I am still engaged in settling up my business and intend 

 to go west to look about April. I shall be home ready to 

 see you when you come, which I conclude from what you 

 say will not be later, at least, than August. Should life and 

 health be spared to us till then, I calculate we shall have a 

 joyful meeting. Write when you get this and we will perhaps 

 get it in time for a family gathering about New Year. . . . 



"Amos and Harriet, Margaret and Silas" were all 

 valued helpers and sharers in the family life. 



(S. W. J. TO A. A. J.) 



Dear Father, Aware that it is more important to write 

 often than much, I send a line or so by this week's mail I 

 continue in good health and am too busy to know any news 

 to send. ... I acknowledged the receipt of the money in a 

 large letter which appears to have sunk with the ill-fated 

 Arctic. I have since written repeating the acknowledgment 

 and do it now for the 3d time. In my last I talked about 

 plans and wants. I am rapidly getting short of funds, but am 

 in no pressing hurry, although I ought to receive at least a 

 small remittance before long and a considerably larger one 

 by about March, as at that time I must pull up stakes in 

 Germany and move westward with the Star of Empire. I 

 regret to leave Munich so soon, and would so like to stay a 

 year in Paris and a time in England, but it won't do to think 

 of it. In my last, I talked about my plans for traveling. If 

 they are thought too expensive, I give them up. I feel it 

 almost a duty to buy more books, but I can also forego this, 

 and will content myself with visiting Paris a few weeks in 

 the spring, and then go to England, and after a few weeks 

 more go home I shall then have been two yrs. out. Tell 

 Mr. Storrs I can't possibly find time to fulfill my promise to 

 write for the Northern Journal. The short time that remains 

 I must improve most assiduously if only to accomplish what 



