
          for self & family. And your account of the state of the
candidateship looks pleasant and satisfactory.

Why not retain the McDougal W. house & reside
there as you return to N. Y. (Can you do better?

But I write to beg you, on every account, not to
feel disturbed, and resort to no expedient that will
cause any sacrifice to pay off the other note I
hold this winter. I think you have already done
enough.

I think I can continue to get a discount
-through some friend in [state h?] for 3 months, the interest
of which must be charged to Sprague. In that time
if we can bring out the new vol. its [added: first] sales will soon
meet it, & pay Prestele. The printer I will pay at 6 months,
(tho' I save 5 pr. cent on his bill by paying cash down.)
by which period you may be able to help me.-

Only, if you can by Christmas day (or two days
before) have in Sprague's hands the $100 advanced by
Henry (of which you will till then have had the advantage)
it will be a great convenience. I have to advance to
Sprague, now, from month to month, all that he
needs to live on - which is pretty hard.

Wright is up from Texas (with his mother at [Northfield?],
Connecticut, soon be here as curator to me,
taking [Lequereux's?] place, who has been with me a 
little, but now, as a consequence of his visit to [?]
goes to aid Sullivant, with a provision that makes the [treaty?] worthy
        