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Rh early in the spring; had yon better not go with me and share my fortunes, for a year or more?


 * * Write.

"Yours, etc., M. L."

—Your last letter was received a day or two since. I have moved my quarters to this house, so please direct all your letters here. Why did you not urge them not to take my goods to Providence? For heaven's sake see K. & B. when you receive this, and have them immediately returned to me, with their bill. I am so miserable I feel like taking my own life. My darling boy, my Taddie alone, I fully believe? prevents the deed. Your letter announcing that my clothes were to be paraded in Europe—those