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stump alot Nick himself to get it there
I have loaned $200.00 to a feller the forem [fotreman]
in the tunnel on 15 percent interest, as honest
a man as there is in Mass, I had a letter
from Caroline the 12^th of this months dated
the 21^st of July mailed the day after the
previous steamer sailed from N.Y., she wrote about Aunt
Sarah's death I should think she died rather sudden

Monday night, I have just come from the Post Office
got a letter from Silas & Mary they made me
feel all 'round the eyes &c heard of S. getting home
the last mail, in reading over an old letter of
yours I see you say, "when you come home remem-
ber both come together", butI must confess that when
he started I entirely forgot it, & besides I sent
my money all off with his, so that I had none
to come with, the shirts & stockings that I brought
from home I ware [wear] still, tho they begin to be rather
dilapidated especily [especially] 'round the heels & the shirt
sleeves — I am not sure that I've got any, at any rate
I have a bad opinion of them, for they keep themselves
rolled up as tho they were ashamed to display
their raggedness, but however I have got the
metal that will buy cloths [clothes] so that there
is no fear of my suffering, we had tripe for
supper to night tho it did'nt go as good
as it would if Mother had cooked it yet it
went very well, but I must finish & go to bed
so adieu for the presant [present] yours affectionately S. A. Shumway

(P. S. I send a letter to S. in this)

[writing around the page in the margin]
Mary says N thinks of studing Latin, I expect she will go through College & have M.D. or Rev attached to
her name by the time I get home, I'll bring along an [Dstonus?] steed the long eard [eared] kind for her to visit her patients