I have no check-bookⒶemendation here—at least I can’t find it. I will tell Charley Langdon to send you a draft for $175.—$100 to bu of it to buy the lot with, & $25 for Ma, to repay the money I borrowed of her.

We arrived all right, & less than an hour late. We had a perfectly delightful supper, hot & juicy, in the hotel-car.

Have received a letter from Orion, proposing to send me some heterodox MS for my judgment. I suppose he is going to try to make hell unpopular, now. Well, I approve of his work. He believes he is going to make some money out of this operation.

We had a charming visit with you all, & achieved a higher opinion than ever of Charley, & his energy, capacity & industry. But mind I tell you, in all affection, Sam had better look out or he’ll be another Orion. This may be a false alarm & I hope it is—but isn’t it really time Sam was getting at something? He has got a mighty good head—he ought by all means to go into the law with that young Woodford. They would make a success of it, sure.

I was going to write a few lines to Ma, but this is the sixteenth letter I have written since I sat down, & I am ti getting tired. Besides, there’s still a pile to answer.

We had a charming visit with you—Susie wants to go back & “stay forever.”