-To O’Mahony from James Cantwell-May 3, 1860

3 May 1860, Boulogne. 'My dear friend, while waiting for the boat here I write you a few lines to acquaint you with the return of our friend [James Stephens] from the country and his failure to obtain anything untill [sic] October next. It will be then given without any further application. I gave him 20 dollars to go' third, which with what I gave him before and my expenses so far takes all the money I got from you and thirty three dollars of my own. I will therefore have very little money to travel on when I reach Dublin. I hope you will not be displeased with me for giving him this money. He would certainly have been arrested and put in prison if I did not do so. This perhaps will reach you as soon as the one I sent you by the Haver [sic.] steamer which sailed on yesterday, and you can make your arrangements according to the information contained in both. He wishes me to get my friends to come to Dublin. But this I think would be a double expense. It might perhaps be done in one or two instances but as a general rule could not be done at all. I will write [?] you by every Saturday mail in future, and once I reach Ireland shall endeavour to make my expenses as trivial as possible. I shall be exceedingly uneasy until I hear from you, so lose no time after you receive this. How does O'B get on? Their St Patrick's dinner was a shabby affair. I predicted it beforehand. Our friend does not consider your new travelling agent a whit better than I have reported K. to have been. He does not consider him at all trustworthy. Fraternally yours. Direct as before.'