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Mother has sent you one flannel shirt & [w?] to delay making another till advised how well this suits you. She will see to you. She loves you, & will provide for all you known wants so far as her power extends. This is a lonesome rainy day. No meeting. No stirring in the streets. Dark vapors, & thick mist, & torrents of rain, & thoughts of coming winter, & of the long tempestuous & dreary time before the earth will be green again, & the trees leaf out, & the flowers bloom again, make us gloomy. [Dick?] sings again. [?] is my [?] fellow [?]. [?] up & give us your most cheering [notes?]. Good boy, Zadoc, good boy John Addison! Be good boys - take all the [comfort? you can in the performances of your duties-

Affectionately Yours Z. Long