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Racine 1830

I was very glad to receive your letter of Feb 21st. I seem quite good to have letters from you they, having been rather few and far between of late. I just mean to scribble a few words to you to send with my letter to Almeda, have but an hour to write, so shall say just what comes into my head first. I am glad you are at home again with Mother, very glad the rooms are finished, and very glad indeed you are trying Homeopathy, now as to your 'intimate, ideas of things, I partly agree with you, partly not. That I should look back, and think upon 'Maine sinners' is quite natural, but that I am not quite tolerably happy, is not true. - Mr & Mrs H. are good sort of people: she is a good straight forward, mother of fast body who has kept cool a little too long, and is a little circumscribed in her views of some things at large. He is really kind hearted and not lacking in liberality but moved much by the impulse of the moment. She was unwilling to give me a note when we settled in Jan because she had received but a small part of her tuition, though I thought she ought to because more than a year had passed therefore my salary was due. After she got me the money, Ms H offered to give me a note so as to pay where he was owing: but I thought best not to told him my brother had written that he would invent it for me - though I suppose I could have had [left side and top] This is not a very elegant looking epistle. Next time I will do better.... I attend singing school and Glee glass two eves in a week, expect to be able to teach vocal music ere long! Give my love to Mother, Charles, Joseph, Albina, Little Charley and any body else that wants it.