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Monday P. M. 13 Sept. [underlined] Just returned from the Town House, - a babel. I deposited my vote + hurried away. I judge from a glance at the meeting that the Ramrods + Rummies are about equal as to numbers. Your uncle Lucius rode with me this afternoon + said he like our little horse very much. You say, Zadoc, you may never be worth a cent [underlined], but in many other respects you are like me. I hope you will, in due time, be worth a handsome property earned by honest industry; if not, I hope you will [?] have a good character, + be a highly useful, respectable + happy man. I hope you will be so far like your father as to possess all his good [underlined] qualities, if he has any, but not so far like him as to possess any of his bad [underlined] ones. Oh, Zadoc, I own to you, with deep re-morse, that I have possessed + exhibited some bad propensities + it would be far better for me + for my children, had those propensities been subdued in my early like + never suffered to have any con-trol of me. One is, impatience [underlined], + a disposition to fret + scold, like a foolish old woman. I warn you [underlined], my son, to guard against + wholly conquer this irritable state of temper. For you [underlined] have it like me [underlined]. It has been a bar to our happiness, in our intercourse with each other. And I regret it. We have undoubtedly had stronger love for each other than is common between father + son; but