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assisted by Cahill conducts the paper. Poor
old Levison�s memory already speeding post-haste
to oblivion. So anxious about his poor paper,
too, as the man was, that each day�s detail
life brings him prominently before me. The
folks chatter and tattle at table as usual,
and each day rubs on. Well they�re right,
perhaps. �Eat and drink for to-morrow you
die!� � and people forget you. Haney is very
busy, projects a new office in May &c. Mrs
Levison misses her dead husband�s squiring her
to theatres, his ready purse, and patience
and kindness � and that�s all. God grant
I may have somebody to love me when I die!
March
1. Sunday. To Bellew�s, morning
and evening. Made an agreement to come and
work for him, for $ 15 weekly, commencing
to-morrow.
2. Monday. A violent snow-storm, being
a relapse into that of January. At Bellew�s
all day till 6, drawing, with a sick headache.
He at work also. Two other persons present.
One Whelpley ex-editor of Democratic Review,
and literary man. He has just returned from
nine Nicaraguan mouths, and denounces Walker