to think that I have again got into my old lazy habits because I had been late of rising for two or three mornings, but you are quite mistaken. I have got up early every morning this week. I have seldom been later than half past [text missing]. You need not fear that I will again get [into] a habit so injurious to the health and which causes also so much waste of time. You wish to know what progress I have made with "Rollin". When I had finished the second volume I found that the next three had been taken away by some person, which is very annoying as I have not been able to find out who has got them and I shall be obliged to begin at the sixth volume. It is too bad of people to take books without telling us. There are a great many which we miss and there is little