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1st Warwick Mar. 24th 1880 Dear Sister Abby, [under salutation] I am glad you are so near. P.O. I wish I was. Thank you for your prompt re- turn of letters & documents. it makes so much relief from anxiety off - I have written Charles for the same, as I did you & Chandler & sent him a dollar for expense, & told him to have one of his boys go for some competent person to come to his house & make the thing easy as possible - I thought perhaps if I didn't he might feel that he had been left out & worry about it. I also thought if there should be any crooked places to get over, it was well enough to be prepared to meet them legally. Dea. Barber has written to have Chandler come up by Sam'ls request - he may come but I think doubtful. I rec'd from Judge Bacon the 20th a letter of 14 pages covering nearly every point in the matter & very plain information. I will copy same.

[written along the left-hand side of the page] Mr. Osgood has brought a house & some land in Chicopee, Mass & is to move their Apr. 1st. I saw this in the Springfield Republican. I will add you must'nt have any fears as to my using or taking any im- proper liberties with your Document -- & it will be just the same as though in your own hands - & you can kill it whenever it has done the work necessary. Mary had a short vaca- tion next week & is coming home - James is making sugar. I have heard Robins & Bluebirds quite plenty. I am feeling real mean this spring --Reed is at N. Y. & sick with Measles. I think it is Awfully mean your new tenant gives you trouble -- what can you do to him to make him behave - I wish your& my farms were both well sold. & you at Hudson in that pretty pleasant home as before. [right-hand side of letter] I wish you could come back least. It seemed very lonely to go to Hudson & not see you & the Children & my ? to little boys