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home so I think that I shall write him
ere long. If you see him give him my
best respects. Have you ever seen his wife?

What has become of Mr. Silas Stone?
I have not received but one letter from him
since he left here and that one was written
soon after he arrived home. Then you have
written nothing about him of late, so I
do not know whether he is at home or
where he is. Please write me of him, and
if you see him give him my kind re-
gards, and ask me to write me ---

My health remains good, and so does
our business. We are not open today.

The past year we have kept one stand
open every Sunday nearly, and have now
come to the conclusion to do business one
year without opening on the Sabbath.

We shall like it much better I know
and I have no doubt, shall be as well
off at the end of the year in a pecuniary
view as we should if we kept open
Sundays. Six days from six oclock [o'clock]in
the morning until ten or eleven at night
ought to pass for a weeks work without
keeping open ten hours every Sunday, for
if it will not pay us by working that
length of time I do not consider the
business worth following ----

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Friday Evening June 15th I am as well as usual this evening. Was in hopes
to have received a letter from you ere now by the Mail which left New York
the 25th May, but the Steamer has not yet arrived, although she is hourly expected.