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time. I don't think she would even have been contented while she lived. She looked forward to the time when we should get into our own house with a great deal of pleasure, but she might have been disappointed. Warren received a letter from you last week written the 25th of June - it had been to Cottage Grove Wisconsin, I have had but two letters from you one of those was a month coming, perhaps if you put on the whole direction they would come sooner. Cottage Grove Lake St, Washington Co, Minnesota, I have not got that bookmark yet that Lucy promised me, hope she will send it, Our goods have not got here yet, am afraid they will be spoiled if they were to come, father has written to Boston twice but we no answer we shall probably keep house this winter but hardly know what to do yet - it does seem as though I could not stay here now, though for fathers sake I must try and content myself at least for the present - I don't know either, that I should feel any better if I went back East it would not be home there now. It seems sometimes as though I was left all alone in the world but I know - I ought not to feel so - my friends all love me enough, better than I deserve, but my mother - who can fill her place! It is growing dark and I must see to the things, write often your affectionate sister Mehitabel, [bottom of page upside down]Mehitable Sept. 1851