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all that time thee has not been here but one half day - Soon after I came - thee used to come much oftener before I came here - I do not quite believe in thy excuse that thee can not leave thy family with out someone to take care of them it will be just the same [[strikethrough]] when [[/strikethrough]] if Mary Ann comes - it was so - when she was with you before- it was just the same when I was with you it used to grieve me often for I felt it was want of confidence in me- but then the children were very small and I ought to have known how hard it must be for you to leave them - but now I do not think you ought to feel so- for the youngest is 5 years old - and the oldest grown up  and capable of doing for the rest- beside if you took the little ones-

Well darling dont think I blame thee thou art a Mother and a loving one and that accounts. I had so much to talk over with thee- I have been laying
every thing aside till I should see thee -  So many things in which I wanted thy advice and one cannot discuss matters in a letter - 

I am so glad Nelly likes her school- tell her she must write me all about it- Why dont you let Lala go for 2 or 3 hours every day- 5- years is not too young to begin school- Mrs Taylor's little boy just about that age reads quite nicely in the little Annie book- and the one who is a few months older than Willie reads the Rolls books quite well- knows the whole of the multiplication table &c- I wish you could find a better school for Willie