At this time there is a great effort making to get enough to
rebuild the hotel and to place two more mills where they have been promised. I
wish my own means were commensurate with my desires, and I would do the
needful. Some people dread the responsibility imposed by wealth; I have never
had that feeling, but the reverse, for I feel every day and hour, the want of
money. Twenty times the amount I have to spare would not come amiss, in fact
the want of it makes me more or less unhappy every day. This very morning I
have declined to do as much as would require my receipts for many months.
SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence:
With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 109-10
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