Your spirited and delightful letter has just been received. Permit
me to say that I have been so charmed with your disinterestedness
and freedom from that love of money which is the cancer of our age,
that it only determines me the more to allow my well-considered will
to stand. I need only make the alteration of leaving the property in
trust for you, so that it will be out of your power to dispose of
the principal, even to give it to my relatives--whom I particularly
do not desire to have it. All I ask is that you continue to me the
kindness you have always shown me. My ailments become daily more
complicated and acute, but still I possess great vitality, and I
would be deceiving you if I gave you to understand that you would not
have long to wait for your inheritance. But whether you treat me well
or ill, it and myself are both
Forever yours,