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Bridges of Stone, or Howes' or Pratts Truss, to Wisconsin Plank Road Bridges of Logs. However I mean to go West to see the country sometime. If my Salary is next year $1000.00 and 1500.00 the year after, in about three years, if I do not get married, I think I shall be able to go. Whenever I do I will try to remember the Commission of Mrs Hopkins to whom please present my compliments for the trust. Why do you not write to Mrs. Chase & Mrs Caleb Metcalf, if you wish them to hear from you. I am in Boston but very rarely then only on business. And no time to spare to see anybody. The minutes of an Engineers time necessary to make such a call are more valuable than two or three letters. As for the Cousins & c. I guess they are all pretty much in Statu quo. Joseph A. the only one in whom I feel much interest, is Depot Master at Grouts, where I spent the Fall & Winter, will do first rate there I think. His wife Jane, who you know is my favorite of the whole, and the baby which is very pretty, & healthy, & Abby, are established there in a bit of red house near the Depot, Snug, comfortable & happy as you please if Joe will only be contented, & I guess he will. Hannah & the Children were better than first part of the Winter. I was out to Warwick & spent the Sabbath before I left there. the first time I had been there since you were. Maria wanted to go to California with Mrs Farnham's Party. Everything at Aunt Conants' & everywhere there goes on in the same old way. Next year at this time they will have lived about one day more than they have now. I can live as much in an hour as they do in a month, seems to me. Sabbath before I spent at Royalston. Heard Rev N. Hazen preach. Mr Perkins has not been to church for some months since Dr Batchelder died so suddenly which affected him very much. The Dr in his usual health, been riding all day, died in his chair while playing Chequers. Cousin Prescott's Widow died suddenly crossed out at Worcester lately, So the three children come back upon their Grandfather who hardly knows what to do with them. Mrs. Upham, formerly of Exeter Me. Mrs. B's Sister died at W. just one