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How are the young gentlemen in R.? How many have you been really gone on since you arrived? I don't mean the every day ones but the real sollid mashes. Please tell me all about them and who is the one just now? I don't know whether your mother has had the old master framed or not. I hope not unless she will hang it upside down. Your mother & pa are quite well but your mother says it is rather lonesome. I am afraid she misses you more than she expected.

I have the funn[[crossed-out]]y[[/crossed-out]]iest time teaching that ever was, except when the young ladies cry as one did the other day. I told her I thought she cared more for the amount of work she did than for the quality and she really cried. Don't you think that was rather mean of her, it made
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This is supposed to kill at twenty paces.

Ashmont. Nov. 2./83.
Dear Emmie,

I sent that picture to Minnie; it has probably arrived by this time. Dont let them pitch into it too hard as it is only a sketch, and a pretty bad one at that. I had sworn off using tobacco previous to your kind information about the colored people's feet. Thanks! ever so much all the same. I did ride home with the family on the event full eve of your departure; we were about the most happy looking crowd you ever saw. I decided to go to Florida a while ago, but have since
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