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you say of your school it must be pleasant. You and Mary purpose there it seems to spend sometime in the spring on the Cape. I hope you will have a very pleasant time and it will be the means of doing you much good mentally and physically. In reference to your California brother I Assure you if I get as far west as the Golden Clime I will try to look him up and bring him back to dear old New England. But would you believe it I have got so I have no inclination to return to New England to live. I prefer living in the west decidedly. Do you ask why? It is because I can do so much better here than there and I think my health is also better. Are those good reasons? I love the intelligence and virtue of New England but the elements of progress I think I see here in greater abundance than there. I have also formed some excellent acquaintances here in the wish I find human nature about the same everywhere I go. I find very social and intelligent people in Peru where we live and where Josie died. I am becoming acquainted here and find some very pleasant people I have made my home at this point some four months, but a large majority here and elsewhere have given themselves up to hoarding wealth at the expense of intellectual and spiritual rights. There are quite a number of very wealthy men in this place having from 50,000 to 350,000 dollars. One large farmer who has 5,000 acres of land here told me That his net proceeds from farming last year was not less than 25,000. Land here in this immediate vicinity is worth 100.00 an acre. It is the best land for agricultural pursuits I ever saw. But there are also many poor people here forming a much stronger contrast than we find in N. England. Remember me kindly to all my friends in Warwick. Where is Mr. Wilson? Did he live in Warwick? Do you have preaching every Sabbath now. I hope to visit N. England in the spring but still am not sure I will do so. If I do I shall be sure to make a good visit at Maple Grove if I find Abby and Mary there. May I not hope to hear from you again soon. Write as often as the Spirit moves you. affectionately, N. Kendall