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seems to possess much energy of character and good sense. She is extremely nice and particular in all her ways: everything is done just right. I wish you could go with me today to her room and sit and talk with her awhile: I hope it will not be very long before you will have opportunity to see and talk with, not only your new sister, but your other sisters and brothers here. Oh, I must tell you of her present. She has received many valuable ones, from her pupils and friends. Vases, Cardracks, elegant fans, superb silver cake basket half a flohera? smaller articles as butter knife, salt & cream spoons; &c gold thimble, silver bouquet holder, a collar & wrought ? each five dollars: one of her pupils a girl from North Carolina presented her with a night cap of her own work the most exquisitely nice of anything I ever saw. - the materials the nicest linen cambric and lace edging which with the work would not be worth less than eight or nine dollars; it is altogether too nice a thing to wear, fit only to look at as a curiosity. She has been here with Eliab a number of times & I have been over their room with my work several days, but it is not like being all together in the same family: we do not yet feel well acquainted but we hope in time to love her as we do our darling sister Nettie. Saturday afternoon Samuel and Eliab were engaged in quite a little fracas - a drunken Irishman who was very disorderly was taken up by the constable and rescued by a stout Yankee partly intoxicated; it was near Brown's Store and several men among them our brothers lent