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Fri 4: We received your letter this evening together with one from Robert and another from Sarah C. You can well imagine I am joyous just now. Robert is well and in fine spirits. They are also well at home. I did not expect to write you so soon as this but your request seems to demand immediate attention. I am sorry that I cannot say I am well acquainted with Miss Farr. She is not here this term. She was obliged to go home on account of the severe illness of a sister. I can vouch for her beauty at least. When I first saw her she had shorn her head of its natural ringlets and I must say never did short hair so gracefully adorn a more beautiful head. Her face was lovely and her manners sweet. You know every beauty in this world must have its faults, hers is in her form, though I would not have you think that is bad at all. You ask if she is good. They say she is so. She is very conscientious &c. She seems to live however in an ideal world. Such as facts and words form out of their fruitiful imaginations. This is her greatest failing, so far as I know. She is not a fine scholar, their seems too much reality about schoolbooks to interest her. One of her friends told me that she was injuring herself by reading romances. This is a great pity, it affects her more than it would some one of a different cast of mind. She is very enthusiastic and when anything pleases her words cannot