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Capt Emerson to get it so if he wants it I will send it to him but should like to keep it till I come home I have sent you some money by express which I expect you have got before this time if not write as soon as you get it so I shall know you have got it I want you to get along as well as you can till the next payment comes then I shall have about four hundred dollars coming for you to help your self with I sent you 8.75 then I borrowed some money of Silas Estes to ly my fit out with which I shall have to pay next payment I have bought every thing I need but coat and pants them I cannot get here my rig that I got cost me forty dollars and what my coat and pants will cost I do not know but expect it will come high but shall get along as prudent as I can my sickness last fall cost me somthing which I had to pay this time but keep up good courage and I hope it will all come out right by and by give my love to all of the children tell them father wants to see them very much and the time will soon pass away now if I live I shall be at home