Although the enterprise looks well and is prospering, yet somehow I do not command the cash as some business men would if they were in the same situation.
The property is doubtless good and is increasing, but I cannot use it as I could the money, for, while everybody seems to think I have the wealth of John Jacob, the only sum I have actually realized is my first dividend on one line, about fourteen hundred dollars, and with this I cannot purchase a house.

But time will, perhaps, enable me to do so, if it is well that I should have one....

I have had some pretty threatening obstacles, but they as yet are summer clouds which seem to be dissipating through the smiles of our Heavenly Father.

House's affair I think is dead.

I believe it has been held up by speculators to drive a better bargain with me, thinking to scare me; but they don't find me so easily frightened.