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are except to Isaac & Nettie who highly approve & I intimated something of it to Eliab If Mallie had come I intended talking with her more fully, perhaps the better way will be to let the matter rest until her vacation which we think she may spend down east & then determine the future. A Chandler girl from Foxcroft, who remembers both Isaac & me, has invited her to go home with her & would be company for her on the journey --- Your plans in respect to my spending a part of next season at Milo with Libby is I must confess a very inviting one to me on many accounts, I have no doubts but it would be highly beneficial as well as pleasant, but there are objections & obstacles which make it very improbable. The doctor's Western bonds are turned into "dead lands" for the present, requiring outlay (he has just sent about 100 dolls to secure in) & while Hattie is away at school we ought not to journey much, if this objection were not insufferable, I do not see how I would leave doctor lonely & alone, & he could not be absent from the Bank long. Perhaps Isaac & Nettie can make a visit east next season & you & Charlie return with them. Charles cannot do a better thing for his boy than to send him to Isaac for a few years & perhaps his absence may be no damage to Josie. With a great deal of love your Affect. daughter Anna.