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all hurts him very much to swallow his food or talk probably cannot live long - & it will be even matter of rejoicing when he is releas'd & permitted to enter into the joy of his Lord to be where he is, and to behold his glory - I had a good long letter from Charles & Albina they were all very well - sent us 2 prs of nice fat chickens Almeda has a very hard disagreeable lot now besides great labor & care the every offensive odor in which she must live constantly She is almost sick I fear it will wear her all out - James is boarding at Charles Everetts & attending school at the village I've had two letters from him lately he is making his calculations now to earn money as fast as he can till he gets enough to buy him a farm somewhere out west & make a home for his Mother & Lissie - has given up the idea of learning a trade - I had a letter from your uncle Pelatiah not long since he wrote that your cousin Sam'l Metcalf is in Illinois (a land speculator) Josiah has just returned from a 3 years whaling voyage. Maria Stevens wrote me a few weeks ago that Sister Conant & Esther were well She saw Sister Conant at the