inclosed find check for those opera expenses. your aunt livaⒶemendation is distressed. you remember she jumped out of the carriage in such a hurry that night that she did not even say good bye to annie so she wants to apologize. she also wants you to say to annie that it was her full purpose to go up there and see her before leaving new york, but one thing after another interfered and defeated her intention. she was exceedingly sorry about it, but there seemed to be no way to help it. she is going to try to do better next time.

by the inclosed note you will see that the type setter company are going to have a meeting next week, april 4th. i shall try to be present at it, but as that is going to be a particularly busy day with me i may possibly fail.

two or three days ago i invented a very useful thing, and when you come up here i want you to remind me of it, and then i will take measures to patent it.

your aunt livaⒶemendation is suffering horribly with quinsy, which makes sleeping and speaking impossible; but we are expecting it to break today, and then relief will come.

i inclose a letter from ella lampton. i have been trying to think up some way to provide employment for kate lampton, but thus far have not succeeded. kate wants to do copying, if she can earn a living at it. the family as you see would like to come to new york to live; so it occurs to me that it would be well for you to ask mr. whitford and see if his firm would give kate a lot of their copying to do provided she proved to be capable and prompt. if they require type writing, i would buy a type writer for her. if mr. whitford should think favorably of the matter, let me know and i will send out and have kate copy a piece of badⒶemendation manuscript, if you can furnish me such a piece. i do not write any bad manuscript myself.