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I received your letter last week, and am now improving the first opportunity to answer it. Perhaps you will be a little surprised when I tell you that when I first opened it, I could not imagine who it was from, and that I had really forgotten who Lucy H. Metcalf was; but I soon found out, and right glad was I to hear from you and your family, of whom we had heard nothing for a long, long time. I don't wonder I had forgotten you, from the fact that I never was much acquainted with you, and also from the length of time that has intervened of since I had seen you, and more particularly since I had heard from you. Isaac and I corresponded a short time after you went to Milo, but the correspondence ceded with Isaac for what reason I never knew. I wrote to him last, and since then, it has been only by accident that we have heard from any of you; and you may rest assured that I and indeed all of us were very glad to hear from you once more, and hope that for the future we shall hear from our friends in Maine oftener. | I received your letter last week, and am now improving the first opportunity to answer it. Perhaps you will be a little surprised when I tell you that when I first opened it, I could not imagine who it was from, and that I had really forgotten who Lucy H. Metcalf was; but I soon found out, and right glad was I to hear from you and your family, of whom we had heard nothing for a long, long time. I don't wonder I had forgotten you, from the fact that I never was much acquainted with you, and also from the length of time that has intervened of since I had seen you, and more particularly since I had heard from you. Isaac and I corresponded a short time after you went to Milo, but the correspondence ceded with Isaac for what reason I never knew. I wrote to him last, and since then, it has been only by accident that we have heard from any of you; and you may rest assured that I and indeed all of us were very glad to hear from you once more, and hope that for the future we shall hear from our friends in Maine oftener. | ||
I reccollect very well seeing you in Boston, and although "old time"had nearly effaced the circumstance from my memory, yet the reception and perusal of your letter brought it up again fresh to my memory, the encroachments of "Old Father Time" to the contrary notwithstanding! I should like very much to see you, Isaac, Mayo, Aunt, Charles etc. and hope to have the pleasure soon; as you write that you think of spending the next Winter in Mass; and also that Aunt & Ann think of visiting Mass. Should you do so, you must not fail from coming to Lowell. We heard of you last visit to Mass, and were very much disappointed because you did not visit us, and hope you will not again neglect us. We had heard of | I reccollect very well seeing you in Boston, and although "old time"had nearly effaced the circumstance from my memory, yet the reception and perusal of your letter brought it up again fresh to my memory, the encroachments of "Old Father Time" to the contrary notwithstanding! I should like very much to see you, Isaac, Mayo, Aunt, Charles etc. and hope to have the pleasure soon; as you write that you think of spending the next Winter in Mass; and also that Aunt & Ann think of visiting Mass. Should you do so, you must not fail from coming to Lowell. We heard of you last visit to Mass, and were very much disappointed because you did not visit us, and hope you will not again neglect us. We had heard of Almeda's removal to Milo; but did not know it until several months after they | ||
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M M
Lowell, May 15, 1845
Dear Cousin.
I received your letter last week, and am now improving the first opportunity to answer it. Perhaps you will be a little surprised when I tell you that when I first opened it, I could not imagine who it was from, and that I had really forgotten who Lucy H. Metcalf was; but I soon found out, and right glad was I to hear from you and your family, of whom we had heard nothing for a long, long time. I don't wonder I had forgotten you, from the fact that I never was much acquainted with you, and also from the length of time that has intervened of since I had seen you, and more particularly since I had heard from you. Isaac and I corresponded a short time after you went to Milo, but the correspondence ceded with Isaac for what reason I never knew. I wrote to him last, and since then, it has been only by accident that we have heard from any of you; and you may rest assured that I and indeed all of us were very glad to hear from you once more, and hope that for the future we shall hear from our friends in Maine oftener. I reccollect very well seeing you in Boston, and although "old time"had nearly effaced the circumstance from my memory, yet the reception and perusal of your letter brought it up again fresh to my memory, the encroachments of "Old Father Time" to the contrary notwithstanding! I should like very much to see you, Isaac, Mayo, Aunt, Charles etc. and hope to have the pleasure soon; as you write that you think of spending the next Winter in Mass; and also that Aunt & Ann think of visiting Mass. Should you do so, you must not fail from coming to Lowell. We heard of you last visit to Mass, and were very much disappointed because you did not visit us, and hope you will not again neglect us. We had heard of Almeda's removal to Milo; but did not know it until several months after they