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Monday, November ijth. 



Ma broke down at half past ten last night at the point 

 where I now commence in Mr. Cook's shop.* 



I have little to add, except to say I will send you all 

 the money you can use. Go to the theatre every night — to 

 Christy's — everywhere where there is any fun going on. 

 Spend at least fifty cents to a dollar every day in cab rid- 

 ing ; anything to stir up and get out of the dumps. If 

 Eliza sews any, she had better do it on dresses, silk or what 

 not. Jay can buy shirts already made, but dresses you can't 

 get so. Nor can you pass through the customhouse goods 

 merely cut into breadths. They must be finished and worn. 

 There is no prospect of goods being lower in a long tmie. 

 It is the infernal tariff, and not the exchange, which makes 

 them so high. ... In December Kitty will probably be in 

 New York. You had better direct to New York, care of 

 Appletons. If we are here, they will send up. If we are 

 in New York, we can send up home. Don't write anything 

 for our folks that is discouraging. Write anytJnng to me. 



Affectionately, Edward. 



Century Club, New York. December 4, 186^. 

 My dear Sister : I left home Thursday — it is now 

 Monday night — lectured yesterday before the Normal 

 School, on Friday at Cooperstown ; spent Sunday here ; 

 go to-night to Albany ; speak on Wednesday at Utica, on 

 Thursday at Jersey City, and then rest a little. Your let- 

 ter about the Botany came the very hour of my leaving; I 

 had to leave it for our folks. It mortifies me that I have 

 made myself so little understood that you suppose I am 

 especially anxious for you to work at either the Botany or 

 any other task. If you can enjoy it better to do otherwise, 

 by all means do that which will be most agreeable ; that is 



* Edward's mother had trouble with her eyes, and in this instance they 

 failed her so that she could not finish the sentence. 



