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Your letter of the 5th inst enclosing a draft
on the Farmers Bank of Va at Charlottesville for five hundred
dollars, reached me yesterday evening. The term of your note was
three months and would not expire until the 5th of next month. I
hope you have not put yourself to any inconvenience in thus anticipating
the time of pay.t & beg you to leave the next pay.t to
such time as may entirely suit you.
Since I saw you in Phil.a we have been very busily engaged
in the coal region on the Lackawanna & east branch of Susqu
Our head quarters are now at a village which ten years ago was
without any thing to represent it but a little country mill. It
now numbers four thousand inhabitants & is the centre of a very
large iron & coal trade, with a wide-guage R. Road tying it to
N. York & a Hotel which would do credit to Chesnut St. So much
for the vitality that comes from cool & iron.
You are by this time begin.g to think of Univ. matters
& the coming labours of the Lecture room. Be of good courage.
Look forward & be not over-anxious about the present.
Mrs. Rogers sends her love to Mary & joins me in kind regards
to all the family.
use. I did not expect to sell it.
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