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[circle] Egypt Sunday

Nov. 28. 1858 -

Dear Bob: --'

I have not rec'd a single line from you since you left dont tink you treat me very well & dont like being sacrificed to the demands of science - wrote you last Sunday and will continue to write every Sunday unless I find you determined to ignore me - Letters from home which come often are full of praises of the interesting communications which they receive from you. I am not near as blue as I was except that I am down herated and desperate enough today it is so dreary cold and

dismal - & I see no pleasant faces and have nothing new to read not even a newspaper except the last Emery - Are you not glad to see Dr K - waking up so wonderous I am it will do him good - I take precious little pride in my articles have no time to write them in fact - for I still have plnty of Paddy work to do. Have had a very plain talk with John P. since I wrote guess he will do what is right - I intend to be firm when circumstances will admit - I will not if I can help it slow myself from the to death for I am convinced it

is not the way to make money - I am willing to work and intend to do so but I must choose my own work and do it in the way I like - You have no - idea what a confounded lonesome place this is at this season of the year - I enjoy an occasional visit at the Bibbs but it does not answer to go there too often. - They are all un=approachable so to speak a little selfish like other folks - make for friendly advances. - I suppose it will be better some of these days - I have got my [illegible] so it is a little more comfortable & mean to make it really cheerful before I am

through with it. - I feel as if I really was away from home at last Bob - I suppose it will be good for me but it is hard to think that they we will seriously but surely forgetting us - I know care how soon the most of them forget me provided they my our brothers and sisters [illegible] with me a while longer -

I dont hear from Delia very often - but when she does write they are noble letters she is improving very much Bob - we think more and is more than I ever thought she was - A dear old treasure is she worth waiting and working for. - She thinks we might live on $600. a year but I doubt it - I will hear from you some time I suppose -

Brother Charlie