He has waited before replying to her letter, not wanting to tax her unwilling hand with correspondence. Lays out his belief in hard work as against idleness. "In my profession there is a very extensive power of doing good to others". When he sees five hundred men supporting their families through hard work under him he feels a pride never felt by any general in war, who conquests through "blood and rapine", whereas Chambers creates. This he says to compare his own profession and that chosn by his
son, whose £100 a year must be spent on "red coats and jack boots".