p.

shall be able to do better; but
I must try now to do just
what I can, and the voyage
may pay. There has been
a strong effort by the "unco
guid" to run me out of
the country; but it has
not so far been successful.
I wrote you a
decidedly ugly letter the
other day, because I felt
and still feel ugly. I
have never had any money
to spend in big researches;
it has been one constant
struggle with sickness and
bad sight and calumny
here; - and that I should