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Your duty lies there with your husband and children - mine - any where in this wide world where I can gain an honest and independent living - Much as I mourn the crushing of all our girlish plans, and hopes, of always living near each other - Often as thoughts of sickness, and disease, the brevity of our earthly lives, and possibly prematurely early deaths, rush through my mind. I'm led to ask mentally, "Why is it best that things should be as they are? And the answer "What ye know not now, ye shall Know here after," sometimes fails to satisfy me. Still you and I both have faith enough to believe that God will direct all things for our good - And Abby, scarcely a day has passed for years, but I have asked for His written down left, top and right side of page I dont think he had better go - I don't believe but he had better come on East - I declare I feel so worried about you all I don't know what to do. I have two weeks more to teach here, and after two weeks you can direct to me at Warwick till you hear from me again I don't know where I shall hail from next good bye I enclose Mother's Photograph - I have had a large one taken from the Ambrotype framed in an oval gilt 'Tis a size larger than those of yours I priced silver cake baskets in Spring field last summer and