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LETTER XVI.

I have just received your letter of the 15th, which
gives me a great deal of pleasure as far as it relates to yourself;
but I was sorry to hear nothing of Tudor, who last
week wrote to his mother that he was in bad health, and his
silence this week will make her very uneasy. Why do you
take no notice of each other in your letters, as if you were
utter strangers. I calculated that four or five dollars (I gave
four for Buona) would get your hat, two the shoes, and
then there would have been nine or twelve shillings a-piece
for you.

Give my compliments to Major Scott, and ask him to pay
you ten dollars, and charge them to me. Give Tudor two
of them in my name. If the other eight do not answer
your purpose, the major will give you what is requisite.
Do you take plenty of exercise? and how is your health
and Tudor's? Is the mathematical lesson you say, in Euclid?—What
book? I wish you not to discontinue French
entirely, by any means. Omitting some of your Latin lessons,
(say three a week,) would enable you to devote two or
three days to French.

Call immediately on Major Scott, and tell him that I understand
Davis means to send the wagons down soon, and I
request he will order them to call at Webster's cabinet-shop
for a press and bedstead for me. You have not yet mentioned
how my old friend is, or Dr. B. Your intelligence

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God bless you, my dear Theodore.