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Cambridge, 1876, July 5
My Dearest Chief, I enclose you Baring’s account which is just sent me. I wrote to Charlie immediately upon receipt of your letter to tell him to draw no more on the letter of credit. But he has not referred to my letter in any [way?], so that I fear he did not receive it. The whole matter is very obscure to me, and I cannot keep feeling exceeding anxious and disturbed about it. I had nor the least thought, [when?] I [il.] his letter of credit, that it has anything but a [?] to be able? him to do his |
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business with the Barings — and thus it was his way of making his Coast Survey accounts. But it seems that I was mistaken. Charlie wrote us about other weeks ago that he was attacked very strangely and suddenly so as to be utterly incapable of motion. His physician told him that he was greatly overworked. Upon submitting the matter to Z [ina]. he thought it of imperative importance that his wife would go with him. [il.] that we were here — in the letter from Berlin [il.] he send now Zina meet him in London. Zina [il.] no other letters have come from him— in which his health seems to be better— although he has another of these
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inmovable attacks. Physicians tell me that they are familiar with such forms of disease arising from excessive work. It is usually not indication of paralisis, but is often seen in its effects for some years and the proper remedy is rest.
This with the money matters greatly worries me — and my relief is to stay at home — see nobody but work like the devil. However Sylvester is in Cambridge and is most of the day in my study. When he is having mathematics and after [missing line] |
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keeps interest in my Neptune and Urane discussion which I am working all the day long — and try to forget in it these other troubles.
Give my very best love to Mrs. Patterson. Your ever sincere friend Benjamin Peirce
Hon. C. P. Patterson |
