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Tuesday. Oct. 19. 1952 Pleasant after the storm. About the middle of last night, we were waked by a severe tempest of lightning + thunder + rain. The flashes were most vivid + terrific, + the instantaneous discharges of heavan's artillery extremely stunningly [underlined] sublime: altogether more startling for being out of the season, + at such an hour of the night. I generally sleep in a night tempest there being something, I think, in the atmosphere, that makes one drowsy, but I did not sleep last night during the tempest.

Zadoc, I must have subjects for my fragments + long communications. Seeing John Davis, about, this morning, with a pair [underlined] of your cast [underlined] off thick boots on, so large and loose that they would slip off his legs if he were high enough from the ground, suggests to my mind Economy [underlined] as a subject for this page. I don't introduce this, from a niggardly desire to avoid any necessary expense for your reasonable comfort. I [underlined] know [underlined] I [underlined] do [underlined] not [underlined]. But, I do it for your instruction [underlined] + benefit [underlined], in order that you may reflect upon it, adopt right rules, + form right habits, in reaction to it. I have no doubt, my Son, you honestly think you are as economical as you ought to be. And I have no doubt you are as much so as young men generally in your circumstances, + very much more so than many [underlined] youngsters. But let us see if you are as much as would be best [underlined] . �