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279 Geoff Euclir, $12055

Jacksonville May 7 1857 Dear Doctor- What a success fails utterly topay me any portio of his bills & ? in these times, I set him down as simply "respectable" If he even pays any part of either principle or interest I conclude be must be out of his headandif he pays the whole property? when due I send at once for the county commissioners to examine into his case, and request if he should notbe sent to the Jusana? RetreatIn my payment of your bills I have come well nigh onto the list of the "respectables"

and I grief? you begin ? to think I was wholly there- But I surely can not so prospect? lest that you may safely set me down as of "sound mind" and competent to make my will at any timeThe first is I have not got the money for the trees yet but only priorities? foir it- and I did think at first that I would send ? only the money I have collected on them and make you wish for the ballance till I got it of the purchasers But I thought that wont be perhaps keeping you out of the nursery quite too long, and

spinning out a little matter into too fine a thread, so I toto? John to bring me a ??? for the full amount of all your bulbs as I included these at present- Am I right in this- We are all well , and by wading in Mead all day and watery all night- and aleeping like a rooster with one eye cocked off toward the clouds & feelling rains. I have got off all our crop of plants & thus and got pay in good clean white paper, somewhat, more or less settled and blotted with dirty ink- and I protest I have given you better than I

have got- simply because first I thought you deserved it, and second because I feared you might need it- so I let some stress? of the priority go unpaid and pay you --- glad there if the general property of yourself & sonsRhoorfiling? is a professor of mathematics in the community college of Orleans. John, Nelly, and Charley are in this college- all the rest with little Mary now ?? Them her mother are at horse & will- I do not now refund the items of interestor if ? in your heart- as I have thought of nothing but ? the past 3 months- I have are ? church leadership & staff lending and can not now even look up letters further ? to find the amount of my bills which I can determine to pay so as to keep off the not reliable list- Yours truly J B Turner