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York I returned to Chicago with him April 1st 1872. That summer our family established its home in the comfortable old farm house at Morgan Park. This was a ridge of land some twelve miles to the South of the city where my Father had purchased a considerable tract of land in the expectation of its increase in value, as the city was rapidly extending to the South. There was a comfortable old residence beside the dwelling for the Farmer. My Mother had added what was recovered from our home which was burned, and with her taste had added pretty curtains and ornaments. My room was of exceptional attractiveness with a blue chintz of a French pattern of Louis XVI. I know it now, but I did not know it then, and the memory of it is so photographed in my mind that I can see it as if it 
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