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[9/28/1969]

Dear Father
 Melville in his letters writes me that you are doing well on the farm & that everything is going on as well as could be expected which of course I am glad to hear. I am bound you shall succeed there if I have to come home & work to help you do it 
I take a great interest in the farm & shall always be glad to hear full particulars of how you are getting along
If things do not work well let me know the same as when they are. Are you succeeding as well as you anticipated? Will you have it all clear from debt without any trouble? Are the people neighborly & do you like living there?
 That man in NY. has not sent me any money yet. I am looking for it every day, but fearing I may be short if I depend altogether upon it  I am obliged to ask you to send me some. I would say put a $20 greenback in a letter but that wont do as there is such an enormous discount on greenbacks here, it is cheaper to go to Boston & back & get a draft that is if gold is anywhere within bounds. It wont pay to go to Boston to get less than $100. discounted so if you can get about that sum without any trouble just watch the price of gold in Merriams or someone elses paper & if it is in the region of 1.35 you or Melville take a day & take out your expenses & go to Bowles Brothers & Co 76 State St Boston deposit the greenbacks & get a sight draft on their firm here for so many francs.