"When you write to me, direct your letters to Cyrus W. Field, at A. T. Stewart & Co., No. 257 Broadway, New York; if you do so, they will come to me quicker than in any other way. There is in the store besides the firm twenty-four clerks, including two book-keepers, one of whom is Mr. Smith, of Haddam; he says that he remembers you, mother, David, Timothy, and Matthew very well. Give my love to mother, brothers, sister, Mr. Fay, George Whitney, and other friends. "From your affectionate son, "CYRUS. "P.S.--On the other side you will find a list of my expenses. From the 29th of April to the 12th of June.--Cyrus W. Field, expenses. From Stockbridge to New York $2 00 Paid to David for Penny Magazines 2 00 (I am not agoing to take them any longer.) To hair cutting 12½ To one vial of spirits of turpentine (used to get some spots out of coat) 6¼ To get shoes mended 18¾ To one pair of shoe-brushes 25 To one box of blacking 12½ To get trunks carried from David's to my boarding-house 25 To two papers of tobacco to put in trunks to prevent moths getting in 12½ To one straw hat (the one that I brought from home got burned and was so dirty that David thought I had better get me a new one.) 1 00 To one steel pen 12½ To small expenses, from time to time, such as riding in an omnibus, going to Brooklyn, etc., etc., etc. 1 25 ------ Total, $7 50 "When I left home I had $8, $7 50 of which is expended, leaving in my hands 50 cents. I do not know of anything that I want, but I think you had better send to me $4 more." In all his letters of this period he calls his eldest brother by his first name, David, and it was not until many years later that his second name, Dudley, is added. At first Mr. Field was obliged to be at his work between six and seven in the morning, and after he was promoted from errand-boy to clerk the hours for attendance at the store were from a quarter-past eight in the morning until into the evening. "I always made it a point to be there before the partners came and never to leave before the partners left. Mr. Stewart was the leading dry-goods merchant at that time. My ambition was to make myself a thoroughly good merchant. I tried to learn in every department all I possibly could, knowing I had to depend entirely on myself."