I am pained to hear of your great embarrassment, which I did not anticipate.

I thought that the extension of time you received, would enable you to meet all demands, and deeply regret that such has not proved to be the case.

Enclosed, I send you a draft for one thousand dollars, which I have raised with great difficulty; I wish, for your sake, that it were ten times the amount.

But it is the best I can do.

When I came here I had about fifteen hundred dollars in money; upon this I commenced business, and have done tolerably well, but I am still on the steep up-hill side, and it is far from certain whether I will go up or down from the point I now occupy.