
          Wallingford, 9 miles south, where I hope to be
able to finish the work. I should have returned
to Troy but was not able to travel so far.
Besides, if I recover I wish to give lectures at Bennington
Vt. and Pittsfield, Mass. before I return.

I have been guilty of [best?] an act of imprudence. 
I gave a speech at the Agricultural meeting
in this county in one of my favorable intervals. It
injured my throat very much. I do not know
where to direct you to write me, unless you
write immediately. On calculating the course 
of mails, I find that if you write to me
at Wallingford, Vermont, and your letter in is
the N. York Post-office by about the 4th of
March, I shall receive it. I wish you would be
sure to write about that time, not differing more
than a day or two. I may stop there twice as long;
but if my health improvesas it has for three
days past, I shall go to [added: sum up?] the southern villa.
Yes soon. I shall leave directions with the
Wallingford postmaster, if I do not receive a 
letter from you before I go.

I have nothing to tell you, for I have
neither seen nor heard any thing. More than
two months have passed away, as a blank in
my existence; excepting so far as extreme torture
could affors materials for amusement.
Today the weather is pleasant here, and I feel
as though I should ride out, and again begin
to think of existence.

Your friend,
Amos Eaton
        