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 per week, saying he was sixteen weeks on the voyage. It will cost him a deal more than that to live at home during the time, and suppose he has no work, or very little! It seems strange to me that he could not find the money, but it is too late to talk of this now.

One certificate of marriage will do if you have not already obtained them. Please send the broken saws and old pattern cards as they are. The hand-saw from Atkin's should be about 27 inches from the handle. I think that is about the size, but am not certain. I should very much like to take with me a carpenter's brace and bits, as I feel certain it would be of immense use to me, but am afraid I shall not be able to do so. However, I shall be obliged to you if you will ascertain the price (as all such things are much dearer in London than with you), and send me word in your next. Mr. Edmonds, in the Horse Fair, opposite Thorpe-street, whom, you will remember, I did some work for about two years ago, is a maker of them. I believe there are 36 bits to the brace. You will only have the trouble of delivering the note directed to him, and waiting an answer. I shall send my last parcel the latter end of this week, and if I can have it I will send the money then.