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to teach and also for the present provides for the family. He has a son two months old and such a poor long-armed thing I never saw not not an atom more than half as large as Percy. When it was five weeks old its grandmother (her mother) made a little coat and pair of pants and fret when on the child spending nearly a week in making them! I think the poor little thing must have looked droll. We are most delightfully situated here, every thing promises me a fine visit. Mr. Hopkins lives in a fine old spacious and truly elegant mansion belonging to Judge Ely family the founder of this place (hence the name Elyria): Every thing about the house and grounds is stately almost magnificent.- a grapery covering half an unclear. - abundance of fruits large pear trees loaded, many peach trees with their heavy-laden limbs bent to the ground with the richest fruit just beginning to ripen; - three or four immensely large venerable weeping willows in different parts of the grounds: it seems quite a paradise. the house unoccupied, Mr Hopkins could not readily find one therefore this was provided: the family make every thing most pleasant. Emily is going to stay three or four weeks. And so am I if possible. Elyria is on the route west 24 miles from Cleveland and is only from the lake. Oberlin adjoins on one side so as Mr. Hopkins