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Monday Eve. 4th Oct., 52 Dear Zadoc, we [?] 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 [?] 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] sever?? 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 you you to de. It is for [start underline] your own, [end underline] & not for my advantage, that I would have you xxx begin a more xxx application to some useful pursuit whereby you can by then, avail yourself. And if you c not to stay in Boston, then be determined that you will do something, here, [ underline] more effectually than you have done formerly. I will xxx & assit you all in my power. But you can