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Friday. Oct. 1/52. I made a mistake in my date, yesterday. How are you, this cloudy morning? And how is John Addison? Are you wide awake, + is the mind clear + tranquil, notwithstanding the dulness of the weather? Does business go smoothly? And do you bear well your con-finement to the duties of the desk? I hope you can answer all these questions in the affirmative: For a knowledge of your [underlined] health + happiness would be a large constituent of my [underlined] own enjoyment. With all other advantages in the world, if the prosperity of my children were lacking, I should not feel that I [underlined] were in prosperity. I live for them. I work for them. I hope + fear for them: make all my calculations with reference to their welfare, + shall feel, when I die, that the chief object of my earthly ambition is accomplished, if I leave them in a state of comfort + safety, + qualified to spend their lives virtuously + usefully + happily. Vernon Cole had a fall a week ago, + hurt his head, + has been sick since. He now has a fever. Mrs. Alexander Robin-son is dangerously sick of typhus fever. Her husband told me just now he had very little hope of her recovery. I look out my window, + see Mr. Farrar starting up the hill with a drove of cattle. Mrs. Arrowsmith has rec'd. word, by Telegraph, that her father + mother will be here next week. Mrs. Arrowsmith sends her kind regards to you, + says she shall try to call at the P. St. House when she returns to N. York, to see you [underlined]. I hope you will see her, + the children [underlined], + see that they have the best attention + accommodations at your house. She is a very deserving woman. "Old uncle Artemus" has not yet returned from