I have engaged three or four at that price.

My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is ready to engage me at that price....

Though I have been much to blame in the present case, yet I think it but just that Mr.Twining should bear his part.
I had begun with a determination to pay for everything as I got it, but was stopped in this in the very beginning, for, in going to Mr.T.to get money, I have five times out of six found him absent, sometimes for the whole day, sometimes for a week or two weeks, and once he was absent six weeks and made no sort of provision for us.

Mrs.T.is never trusted with money for us.

Now in such case I am obliged by necessity to get a thing charged, and I have found by sad experience that a bill increases faster than I had in the least imagined....
"_July 22, 1810._ I am now released from college and am attending to painting.