He gives further commissions as to statues, and declares of his Tusculan villa that he is happy only when he is there.
In the third letter he promises that he will be ready to pay one Cincius L170 on a certain day, the price probably of more statues, and gives orders to his friend as to the buying of books.

"All my prospect of enjoying myself at my ease depends on your goodness." These were the letters he wrote when he had just ceased to be AEdile.
From the next two years five letters remain to us, chiefly noticeable from the continued commissions given by Cicero to Atticus for statues.
Statues and more statues are wanted as ornaments for his Tusculanum.
Should there be more than are needed for that villa, he will begin to decorate another that he has, the Formianum, near Caieta.

He wants whatever Atticus may think proper for his "palaestra" and "gymnasium." Atticus has a library or collection of maps for sale, and Cicero engages to buy them, though it seems that he has not at present quite got the money.

He reserves, he says, all his little comings-in, "vindemiolas"-- what he might make by selling his grapes as a lady in the country might get a little income from her spare butter--in order that he may have books as a resource for his old age.

Again, he bids Atticus not to be afraid but what he, Cicero, will be able to buy them some day--which if he can do he will be richer than Crassus, and will envy no one his mansions or his lawns.