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3. I shall not be able to get from one wedding to the other - one timing at 11 ock - & the other at 12. N. A little collation at 1422. Spruce st - also - for the immediate family - I want to know how the Turner-Mitchell Julia's wedding came off. x x x x My poor little letter, missed the Labor day [?] so I can tell how we married Bessie, and it poured in torrents - she was a fine looking, well dressed bride - and uncle Will gave her away in style, & Mr Nicholson and Lea, his son, married them, with the ivory bound prayer book he fetched Bessie from abroad, & wh she carried instead of a bouquet!- George Pepper was very much more to my mind than Neilson Ritter - & the couple after a banquet at 1422 started for M'k Chunk -etc - so that is done - & we have Turner's cake - so much less stomach ache for him! - More for us! Someone else will describe the Bacon marriage.

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In the mean time your letter has come I think the last from Concarneau - & you say our letters are not long enough! Surely this one will not come under that condemnation! I do not think, compared with yours, that we have anything to make a long letter out of. When winter festivities? commence we will have more material. I did not see the Bacon nuptials - being busy at 1422. The reception there was very small. Little Edward Clay was at the church - and was very good and sweet. They tried to make lots of candles burn on the Altar - but they wouldn't, and had to be ignominiously carried out! - However it went off well - all things considered and the bride went off with her long black veil dangling behind her back! Cambel Harris gave her a handsome rug. She had lots of presents. There! I did not mean to tell you 1/2 of this.

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Duplicate of page 6 Labor day [?] so