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woke quite cheerly - had over some of her funny fibroises? and said she expected to be confined this month. Miss Safford's health is poor yet though she had improved much - and seemed as hopeful as ever. Mrs Baily I have never heard from since I left Saratoga. The most of the particulars? have written me but for the want of time - they have not heard from me. I have more than twenty five letters that shall remain unanswered - but I intend to notice them all some time. For the last two years I have enjoyed what I call comfortable health - with the exception of last winter - it was a trying season for me - for cold always effects me badly. I have had a great deal to do in that time and I have got along with it first rate. A year ago last summer we built a large set of buildings and boarded our help, since then we have had boarders the most of the time now our family is the smallest it has been since I returned home which unclear is five - and as I have been washer-woman - cook - chamber-maid and seamstress you may readily suppose that I have had to be quite busy. My health is not perfect and perhaps never will be - I have to do a little something in the way of doctrine once in a while to keep the ark a mooving - but I am not troubled with dispepsia nor that awful stomach that I used to be. I often think of the many and dear friends that I found in Saratoga - and the cries and