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He might at least have said good night before retiring, I remarked. Ihad heard it said that the crankiest old tub afloat--one that would killany other man to handle--would obey and be as docile as a child when JackLeonard took the wheel. The family fortunes wouldseem to have been improving at this time, and he may have regarded thearrival of another son as a good omen. et he beganit with vast enthusiasm and, until he allowed her to see the manuscript,thought it especially good.

Not at all. I perhaps made a mistake in not writing it in the first person. This letter is dated January 7, 1842. Up to within a short time you had always lived from hand to mouth--now you are in easy circumstances-- for which you need give credit to no one but yourself.