Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd

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I have been thinking when you get able & courage, to have your teeth out, & some put in that it will be agreeable; & I dont know as we shall ever have a better time to pay for them. I want you to have some good ones, & well fitted. I believe you need a whole upper set the under I do not recollect about, but if you undertake the job be thorough, so they will be servicable, dont get into a row with Carter for he & his wife are the longest tongued animals in E. & I fear will get the worst of it. you think I made a great mistake in mortgaging on things, but you must remember at the time Heath had foreclosed and the court was coming on and things looked bad with no place for you to go; if I had known then how things would turn out of course I should not have done it, & if you move out of town I never want to move any of the things in the mortgage at ny rate but very few. My health is pretty good I have been on duty every day the last month. & now, this mail send to Concord for a Hat, to C.A. Colbath of our Co. he has some of the Cos money & it will save sending money each way. I sent it to N.Y. & it was wrecked to H.H. & they have none & I have got tired of Bugling with the Sutters.