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be very glad to pay your expenses both here & back if you will come & when you want to go home Charles Charles & Albina must come here & visit us - Eliab & Mallie must come too - It is I think one of our first duties as well as a large source of earthly happiness to keep up by frequent intercourse the family ties in all their strength & all the more need after by separate families the circle becomes subdivided into smaller & separate households.-- It seems to me Charles might come sometime in the course of the season with such of his family as he could bring & it would do him good as well as us. I keep in mind that Mallie promised her first journey should be to Elyria. -- We have had some pretty cold weather not so much or so severe as last winter - we hope the peaches are not blasted for next season: It is quite moderate now & the winter so far advanced that we shall not probably in this climate have much if any more severely cold weather. The doctor has hardly I think regained his tone of health since his severe sickness last summer but is generally pretty well: I was really quite "poorly" last fall but am now very well - was depressed, with little energy & hopeful feeling, but it is now altogether different I believe I am like you in that my spirits & tone of mind are apt to be dependent on the state of health more than is the fact with some people. We have been reading Dr. Hare lately, have now 'Post and Sceptical Era' and 'Master Pieces of Pulpit Eloquence' & sermons from each noted one of the 'Fathers' from Gentullion down to the present age you would be greatly interested in the work I think. Miss Woodbury likes her new boarding place very well - comes in once in a while. Mr. Wilbur's father & mother have moved to Elyria. he has bought a small farm near uncle Hall's, cousin Jenny is teaching this winter succeeds well - Hiram her brother is at Hudson.