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Friday.  Oct. 1/52.  I made a mistake in my date, yesterday.  How are you, this cloudy morning?  And how is John Addison?  Are you wide awake, + is the mind clear + tranquil, notwithstanding the dulness of the weather?  Does business go smoothly?  And do you bear well your con-finement to the duties of the desk?  I hope you can answer all these questions in the affirmative:  For a knowledge of your [underlined] health + happiness would be a large constituent of my [underlined] own enjoyment.  With all other advantages in the world, if the prosperity of my children were lacking, I should not feel that I [underlined] were in prosperity.  I live for them.  I work for them.  I hope + fear for them:  make all my calculations with reference to their welfare, + shall feel, when I die, that the chief object of my earthly ambition is accomplished, if I leave them in a state of comfort + safety, + qualified to spend their lives virtuously + usefully  + happily.
Vernon Cole had a fall a week ago, + hurt his head, + has been sick since.  He now has a fever.  Mrs. Alexander Robin-son is dangerously sick of typhus fever.  Her husband told me just now he had very little hope of her recovery.
I look out my window, + see Mr. Farrar starting up the hill with a drove of cattle.  Mrs. Arrowsmith has rec'd. word, by Telegraph, that her father + mother will be here next week.  Mrs. Arrowsmith sends her kind regards to you, + says she shall try to call at the P. St. House when she returns to N. York, to see you [underlined].  I hope you will see her, + the children [underlined], + see that they have the best attention + accommodations at your house.  She is a very deserving woman.  "Old uncle Artemus" has not yet returned from