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Eno family letters, October 1832-October 1834
1833-04-10 Page 1
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Penn Yan April 10 1833 My Dear Father I have had the satisfaction of hearing from home several lines very lately - (illegible) gave me minute detail of every thing he thought could interest me, but nothing is to me more gratifying than to hear that you enjoy good health, and my anticipations of the future have nothing more pleasing in them than that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you and my brothers at the place I still call home. I trust that this will be the case next fall. I cannot without loosing important advantages leave this place this spring for any length of time, and I further intend if it lays in my power to have business at Albany next fall - You will also appreciate my reasons for not leaving here for a visit when I say that I am doing whatever industry and a constant attention to business will do to free myself from the Embarassments I now labor under, being in debt I consider worse than Egyptian bondage, & like the children of Israel I intend soon to break the fetters - I suffer nothing of this nature to discompose my mind for a moment however - I tell my creditors I shall pay them when I am able and they must rest content with that. Since I last wrote I have effected a considerable change in my prospects and in my circumstances - I have incurred new liabilities and at first sight much more than prudence would sanction - to get out of debt I have got deeper in, I could not bear to open an office without a library. I deemed it important that I should have a good one and that I should bend my
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Penn Yan April 10 1833 My Dear Father I have had the satisfaction of hearing from home several lines very lately - (illegible) gave me minute detail of every thing he thought could interest me, but nothing is to me more gratifying than to hear that you enjoy good health, and my anticipations of the future have nothing more pleasing in them than that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you and my brothers at the place I still call home. I trust that this will be the case next fall. I cannot without loosing important advantages leave this place this spring for any length of time, and I further intend if it lays in my power to have business at Albany next fall - You will also appreciate my reasons for not leaving here for a visit when I say that I am doing whatever industry and a constant attention to business will do to free myself from the Embarassments I now labor under, being in debt I consider worse than Egyptian bondage, & like the children of Israel I intend soon to break the fetters - I suffer nothing of this nature to discompose my mind for a moment however - I tell my creditors I shall pay them when I am able and they must rest content with that. Since I last wrote I have effected a considerable change in my prospects and in my circumstances - I have incurred new liabilities and at first sight much more than prudence would sanction - to get out of debt I have got deeper in, I could not bear to open an office without a library. I deemed it important that I should have a good one and that I should bend my
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