
          years obliged me to play, not longer exist. I
cannot therefore plead them in excuse
for the continuance of the havbit. I have not
come to a positive determination to shake off this
most enticing of all vices. But I feel truly
grateful for the kind interest you manifest
for me & hope to give you a better account
of myself in my next letter.

I scarcely know what to think [?]
Florida. The first [northers?] have brought on
a renewed attack of hemorrhage from the 
lungs from which I obtained relief yesterday.

My affairs here are unsettled. The last 
revolution cost me more than $5000 & I have as
much more due me with very little prospect 
of recovering one half. The will may be be destroyed.
My circumstances are very different from what
they were when it was writter & a new one was
made & deplisted with Mr. Goodhue when I was
in New York. I shall send what I have collected 
of the fever plant. I beg you will not forget to write about
it.

Truly yours
E.P Johnson

The plants were sent by the Triumph
Perhaps the Capt. did not take the
trouble to preserve them

        