Orestes is glad to hear that Henry and family are all well and progressing so finely. Henry's children will apparently receive the advantages of an excellent education. Orestes wants to hear often of them. All his family are well except Sarah Brownson, 15 years old who has a very bad cough and he fears it is the beginning of comsumption. The mercury fell to 10 below zero without any warning and Orestes is sorry to say he was caught without any warm clothing. Is it all due to Orestes' shiftlessness that lately makes him the sport of adversity? He no longer complains. He thinks it has been his fault that he did not better provide for his old age and yet nothing succeeds with him. Everything fails with him so that he gives up all hopes and quietly submits to any sufferings, misery and disappointment thankful for the few blessings of life and occasional happinesses. His son John Brownson seems to be more fortunate. He has already purchased a small farm near Orestes and with his frugal wife seems bound to acquire a competence early in life. He asks of a new edition of Brownson's Review to be issued. Orestes takes no papers and seldom sees anybody except some neighboring farmer so that he knows not what the world is doing. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.