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Monday Eve. 4th. Oct., 52 Dear Zadoc, we rec your obliging favors by this afternoon's mail. I am sorry you are so un-happy in Boston. I wish you to stay till winter if J. N. Denison & Co will pay your board [start underline] and if confinements to the desk don't injure your health. [end underline] It it hurts your health, you know, I would not have you stay another day. But if it does not, I advise you not to flinch at any reasonable [underline] amount of labor. You must consider that you have from your infancy up to this time, lived a very easy & rather in-dolent life, & that it may now be best for you to accustom yourself to [start underline] severer habits of industry [end underline], in order that you may be fitted for future emergencies. Do as you will, I will never deny you a share in all the comforts I possess. But you are aware that the time may come when you will have no such friend as I am to lean upon, & when you must depend on your own resources, & your own energies, for your support, & for such an independent standing in the world as I know your pride will lead you to desire. It is for [start underline] your own, [end underline] & not for my [underline] advantage, that I would have you xxx begin a more diligent application to some useful pursuit whereby you can by then, avail yourself. And if you conclude not to stay in Boston, then be determined that you will do something, here, [ underline] more effectually than you have done formerly. I will encourage & assist you all in my power. But you can