Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-15

me and prevent me from looking on you as
snake as you are, and from raising hand in
pity to assist you should trouble again cross
your path So l have no fears that will
again come near you. / send you back
ring, and were to write anything about it
the words would only be too decent for the
| same we're they couched in the worst of Ian
guage. So say take it back. Its memory is
indecent, and it is the last souvenir / have
that reminds me Of you. / had few pic
lures OF you, but they have found place
among the nothings which fill the waste bas-
ket under my table. l am aware that in
your back palor hangs a picture of the man
who gave you the wall to hang it on and ru-
NOR says that you have another in your
chamber The picture up stairs send back to
me; take the other down, for he whom it
represents has no respect for you. After
you read this letter you should be ashamed to
look at the picture, for you would say: ''With
all thy faults l love thee STILL" and what
would be merely the same oft repeated lie.
So take it down. Do not keep anything in
that house that looks like me. If there are
any unsettled matters that it is proper for me
to arrange send them to me and make the ex-
PLANTATION as brief as possible. l fain would
reach the point where not even the slightest
necessity will exist for any intercourse be-
tween us. l am in hopes this will end it
JAMES FISK, Jr.
In another letter of Oct. 4th, he says:
''Have not fulfilled every promise have
made? Is there not stability about your
finances to-day if not disturbed by vultures
sufficient to afford you a comfortable income
for the remainder of your natural life? You
say that yon have never received a dollar
from any one but me, and you will never
have another from me until want and misery
brings you to my door, except of course in
the fultilment Of my sacred promise and the
settlement of your bills up to three weeks
ago at five minutes to IL o'clock. You need
have no fear as to my sensitiveness re-
garding your calling on any one else for
assistance, as | find the word assistance un-
derlined In your letter to make it more inn
pressive on my mind. That of all others is
the point would have you reach for in that
you would say "Why man, how beautiful
you are to look at but nothing to lean o."
And you may well imagine my surprise at
your selection OF the clement you have chosen
to fill my place, (Stokes), was shown to-
day his diamonds which have been sacrificed
to our people at half their value, and I'M
doubleday If this were not so the money
would have been turned over to you that
you might feel c0ntented as to the per-
manency ofyour affair You will, therefore,
excuse me if decline your modest request
for a still further disbursement of $50 900.
| very naturally feel that some part of this
amount might be used to release from the
pound the property Of others in whose well
fare the writer of this does not feel an I'M
bounded interest. You say that you hope
will take the sense of your letter. There is
but one sense to be taken out of it, and that
Is an ''epitah" to be cut on the stone at the
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Josephine Mansfield has buried her pride.
Had she been the same proud spirited girl
that she was when she stood side by side
with me, the power behind the throne, she
would not have humbed herself to ask per-
of one she has so deeply wroBged,
nor would she stoop to be indebted to him
for home which would have furnished
haven of rest, pleasure and debauchery with
out cost, to those who had crossed his path
and robbed him of the friendship he once
felt
On October Goth he wrote: We have
parted forever. Now let us make the memory
of the past as bright and as beautiful as we
can, for on my side there is so little to cherish
that cling to it with great tenacity, and hope
from time to time TO wear it off. You know
full well how | have suffered Once YOU
knew me better than any one on earth. To-
day you know me less. 1t is the proper
light for you to stand. 1t is all you desire
on your side, and it is all you deserve on
mine. This letter should remain and be read
only by you. Should you see fit to answer
it the answer will be the same way kept by
me. There has been a storm. The ship
noble steamer, has gone down. The storm
is over and the sea is smooth again. Little
ships should keep near the shore; greater
ships can venture more" Ny ship is poorly
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