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[start underline] Sunday Noon. [end underline] 10th. [?] Oct. 20 Z Long [?] [?] Dear boy. I take up my [start underline] old pen [end underline] many times a day to discourse with you. Let me see what I [?peat][underline] to you. For I have said almost every [to?] you once[underline]. Do you think to keep your [shoulders?] [underline] so that they will not [start underline] rest on your lungs [end underline]? [?] think to [start underline] inhale air all the time, down to [?] [bottom?] of your breathing pipes [end underline]? So that a [start underline] [un?] action shall be kept up in every region [?] chest [end underline]? Do you take a trip, in the [pleasant?] mornings, upon the Common, when [?] can, so that you may let the [?] [?] breezes blow through you, & [?] you from the [lint?] of your shop & [?] of your air tights? Do you keep [comfortable?] [underline] as to clothing? Am I not as careful [a?] [inquisitous?] about you as any old [g?] [th?] in all the country? Has Nelson been in since I was there? Do you get time to [read?] I write? Do you see George after? did he say because I didn't call [?] John Davis spoke on the stage [?] His weigh is 110. He is solid as an [?] bust. I shall send the apples this week- careful not to be cheated in the [ne?] freights [?] ought to be only 42 ct. Z Long