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Nov. 8.\85, Sunday

My darling Emmie.

I got yours of the 25th of October yesterday and was only too glad to hear from my darling.
 
There is one thing I want to ask you before I go on, and that is, why is Mr? Alexander hanging around again and why you did'nt answer him yourself. I thought that that gentleman had retired [[strikethrough]] out of [[/strikethrough]] from our life. I dont care to hear his name mentioned but should he ask you to go anywhere with him again, I should be greatly obliged if you would tell him no yourself and also tell him that you dont care to have anything to do with him; however you have the privillage of doing as you like. There now I have wasted nearly a whole page on a worthless subject but it always makes me mad when I hear his name mentioned and when I think that he did'nt wait till I had fairly got out of this country it makes me madder. If I had been you I should have pitched him out of doors. 
 
You hav'nt any idea dear how mad it makes me when I think of the way he and your darling brother act as soon as I am gone. I will [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough] tell you frankly that there will be war if [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] you let him come around that house. That ends that matter.
 
Now my dear I will write my letter to you. Please dont worry about my working too hard. I will promise darling any thing you want me to. I will take the best of care and wont work too hard or smoke or do anything you dont want me to. How I wish my little girl was with me and that I could say this to her and not have to wait two weeks before she could read it. Tomorrow I shall go down to the school and join for one month. but only in the morning do I work in doors; in the afternoon I go and study out