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Remsen Jan 28th 1850 Dear Jane If my letter was welcome to you I am sure it was not more than yours was to me I think that called a dozen times or more for a letter from you that was always sure? of the written and I had almost given up and was going to write you another but I met with a happy disappointment. I received your letter week ago last Saturday and I am glad to hear that you are more reconciled I thought you would be after a while at first you was a stranger and a little home sick in the bargain but never mind Jane we cannot eat the the nut without we first break the shell and you have a noble chore for preparing for future usefulness if you keep in the right way and trust your heavenly Father for his support and he has promised to give to all that ask of him. Your Father and Mother think that Sarah is getting better she sets up some every day and begins to gain strength. I have not seen her in two weeks but I intend to go there this week the going is so bad that I cannot go as often as I wish to. but Jane I shall try and see them as often I can. I am here in the school yet this is the sixteenth week of the winter term the school is very full the free School has nearly broken up Elizabeth Roberts school she had at first 50 scholars but now they are about twenty and that gives me more work you know. They have a very large School at the Academy there are over fifty scholars and they like Mr Ames as well as even