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My dear Will,
Here we are, [Rud] and myself com- / -fortably ensconced before a crackling wood fire, pretty con / siderably used up from journeying night and day over the most / [excer?]-able roads perhaps it have ever been your luck to travel / over _ we left Albany on Friday Evening at 10 Oclock and only / arrived here this morning at 5. by dint of being the [?uries?] we / persuaded them now and then to go off a walk, but the way [??] / were jolted and jammed up and down, forwards and backwards and / all [lots?] of ways was a [caution?] _ we shall sojourn the night [^ day] and / the night here to recruit and tomorrow morning at * thump and / jolt onour way _ desport the wearinefs of the travel we had a merry / time of it - encountered some rare specimens of the male + female Kind - / Picked up along the road, a sweet featured female with a devilish tender / blue eye _ Rud and myself stowed her between us on the back seat and / the first thing I knew on waking from a nap, the fellow was making / love to her like a very devil _ He found out by her converse that she was / a schoolmistrefs about them there parts, you would have roared to have / heard them talk of [Moore] and Walter Scott. I put in my [ear?] here, quoted / Don Juan and was [carrying?] all before me when Rud very gravely told / her to beware of me as I was married, had buried two wives and was / the father of two lonely infants. He ? swore to it so soberly that Amelia / believed and [behaving] smiled upon Rad - more of this when we meet /
We have picked up much news along the road all tending to confirm / the chances of speculating _ this is one of my sanguine moods so I will / say nothing _ If I only succeed My dear Will we’d have some glorious / days yet _ I regret I was compelled to leave you so soon, especially / as you appeared in such [illegible] low spirits - it wont do - because / we have never been favoured by fortune yet is no reason to argue / we never shall _ stick to hope _ and though it be the ‘gay tomorrow of the / mind’ it [ilegible?- ens?] life and gives one visions beyond the present _ I /
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Feel sanguine, and I like to have those that are dear to me feel the / same _ discouragement does not belong to our time of life _ and as / I have thought upon your deprefsion I [confess] my hopes have received / a sickly hue _ methinks you have no right to be out of spirits _ you / have a career before you which if pursued must give you immediate / independence and ultimate wealth _ my chance is vastly uncertain - if / I do not succeed, why _ but d—n the ifs -
I trust, for my sake, you will get acquainted with Mary H and / tell me all that she says and does, - you will find her a fascinating / little creature full of [care?] and feeling, but alack I am constrained / to confess I believe her in very truth a coquette _ The fact that she / flirts and seems to take an interest in that vapid things S—--- [r?] / has chilled the feeling I have for her _ still she will repay the cultivating / for she has more [merit?] in her [dear?] little body, than the whole pack of / fashionable girls put together. The sister Fanny is my confidant and / as for [becky?] why I love her and so will [>-en?] say nothing _ write / one particularly about them all, for in truth they are the only / people who have [much] of a place in my memory.
When you see the Duers, convince them of my intention of going with / you [?] on my part _ to bid them farewell _ I would have their good / will, for I know for certain, that [who] they do like they are [just] / friends _ and that you know from experience is rare _
Let me hear from you immediately and tell me of your plans / + projects _ I am dreadfully aweary, and Ryd’s shoring in the bed / beside me, warns me that I stand in need of sleep _ Before falling into / the [arms?] of [s–?- res] he dseried me to five his remembrances to you
Ever yours
Theo I
P.S. my love to the girls and tell them to have my shirts ready as / soon as pofsible and I wish sent up with them a pair of shoes which you / will probably find sent home for me by my shoe makers [are] p ??] _
I fear me that you will take this for a taylor bill and throw it in the fire before opening it, for it looks for all the world like one / of [Frosts] documents _ I would not have run the [?-ill] [y-??] [??-tting] you / but have no other paper at hand –
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