You remember I authorized you to draw on me for twenty dollars to be remitted to Mr.
O'Reilly's family, and to keep the source from whence it was derived secret.

My object in writing is to ask if this was done, and, in case it was, to request you to draw on me for that amount." In an earlier letter to his brother he remarks philosophically: "Smith is Smith yet and so likely to be, but I have become used to him and you would be surprised to find how well oil and water appear to agree.

There must be crosses and the aim should be rather to bear them gracefully, graciously, and patiently, than to have them removed." While thus harassed on all sides by those who would filch from him his good name as well as his purse, his reward was coming to him for the patience and equanimity with which he was bearing his crosses.

The longing for a home of his own had been intense all through his life and now, in the evening of his years, this dream was to be realized.

He thus announces to his brother the glorious news:-- POUGHKEEPSIE, NORTH RIVER, July 30, 1847.
In my last I wrote you that I had been looking out for a farm in this region, and gave you a diagram of a place which I fancied.