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