Henry's letter of the 11th. was received with great pleasure at the good news as well as for its kind tone. Orestes hopes that Henry or whoever has the money will send him his share as soon as possible for he is very poor, in fact some of the little girls have no shoes, etc. He has eight children now, the two oldest boys 19 and 13 years of age, work every day in the lead mines, but as yet have not "struck a lead"; the other boys is a baby and 5 girls are expensive. With a small part of the sum Henry mentions, Orestes could get a house and farm spot, where he could raise all his vegetables. Therefore, Henry is to excuse his anxiety for his portion of his father's estate as soon as possible. If the Catholics do not raise a monument to their champion Brownson, without his family mentioning it, Orestes will try to stir them up on the subject, but he does not think it his duty at present to contribute largely to the monument. Sarah M Brownson Tenney does not, he hopes, expect more than a third of the estate, unless Orestes A. Brownson made a will to that effect. Did he leave a will or testament? As to publishing and editing Brownson's books Henry is by all means the person to do that. Henry is eminently qualified and neither Sarah nor Orestes are. Besides they all prefer Brownson's works to be edited by one of his children. Orestes does not known what Brownson wish in this matter was. Therefore only, expresses his own pride that Brownson's son and his brother can and will carry out their father's views. Orestes desires to know however, how Henry's to be paid for this labor of editing and if it is at the price of Brownson's library as Orestes suspects. Orestes wants to know what has become of that library and the household furniture and goods, and if they were sold or were taken as claimed by Sarah when their mother died. When Ned Edward Patrick Brownson died, Orestes got a small box of clothes, but when mother died, he got nothing, not even a handkerchief that had been used by the best woman in the world. Orestes hopes Henry will explain everything in his spare time. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp 8vo.