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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 



