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I think when I last wrote Uncle Mark was not expected to live but a short time. He is better but not well Jennie told us. Uncle David is quite smart. Samuels family are well and Emily's also. Jennie said Warwick was quite dull this winter. The young folks seeming all to have absconded. Mr & Mrs Lincoln are boarding in Boston with Harriet Bowman Rich. Mr. Lieven I think was sent as Representative. Frank Mayo was the opposite party's candidate, and because he was defeated, he left the choir does'nt go to church at all Jennie said, and his father resigned his office as Deacon immediately How foolish in them was'nt it ? They say John Goldsbury and his wife seem immensely loving so that when they are riding out he has been seen to twine his huge arms around her neck and Kiss her, all out in the open weather! This of course pleases the young folks a trifle. He goes to church they say now. Being married cured the gout, I guess likely - Did your farm do its part towards producing the immense crops, you sent us, that Illinois produced? If so you must have been making quite a purse of money. Crops have been generally good I think. Would'nt you have been better pleased if the new rail-road had gone through your own land? I hoped it would, 'twould have raised the price at least. I'm sorry Mr Kendall is having sore eyes. You'll Know how to sympathize with him. Yes I do read considerably - Some how we have considerable leisure time - Chandler has Three papers The Journal, Farmer and Pioneer I have The Greenfield Gazette, and Eva a Sabbath School paper. Then we've been reading Mrs. Stowe's "House and Home Papers" a bound volume of her articles for the Atlantic, "The Privateersman" Captain Maryatt, and last Sabbath Mr. Bassett Gave me a Swedenborgian book "Angelic wisdom and Divine Love" I'm reading with considerable interest - Chandler is going to get Bayard Taylors "John Godfreys Fortunes" today from the library There I guess I've written enough. Write again soon to your affectionately Mary