cams_rjboylan_b012_f003_002_2

as usual my dear wife I say to you I have no
instructions to give respecting affairs you know them
as well as I do. I hope you have long before this received
the $140 I sent by Mr S Forbes September last
to be paid to br. L. C. P. Freer for you benefits.

I think I shall not send any more home. I am
compelled to loose [lose] about $15 on every $100 the gold being
worth from 17 to 19 dollars in the states here only $16
and one per cent discount my gold is of the best quality.
I think I shall not return before next fall although I
shudder at the thought of being so long absent from my
darling home my dear wife and children but I often
think should I be successfull [successful] the pleasure I shall
take in improveing [improving] and embelishing [embellishing] the home of
my darling family. I often see it before my eyes how
the trees will be planted and pruned -- the walks and
grounds, graded the out buildings fited [fitted] up and
the neat comfortable, buggy, to carry my family
all has A tendency to stimulate me to action
and ever regard my health as the property of my
family. I hope you will be contented as possible
bear with the freaks faults and foibles of the children.
Speak kindly it seems now to me as though. A
harsh word would break my heart. Keep A good
watchfull [watchful] eye to Mary Jane she is now at that
age that she is now forming A charicter [character] for
her after life. I feel more anxiety about her than
I do about James. I think he has the seeds of
moral honesty implanted in his mind that I
hope will never be eradicated.