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I lately had a letter from Samuel he and his wife are pretty well now Mary was very sick last Summer but is now teaching their winter school young Sammy was at home 2 or 3 weeks in august quite out of health and discouraged he has lived with his uncle White a good while learned the track has had some wages but Mr W has a great many ups and down he has been doing well sometime but I guess he is now pretty low S is there now but if he is able to work I dont no as he will ever get his pay his father is afraid he will get unsteady and go off to the west he is now twenty years old Samuel says his farm ran out fast while he was gone from it but says the crops were good last year and this except potatoes I hope he will be more contented I think if anyone has a farm and something in the house and barn to eat they ought to be thankful. he says one of his cows will make a pound of butter a day through the summer Esthers health is very good and Mr W says he is well but he looks old and very poor Henry begins to look old has a good many Sick turns I think they all have a good deal of patience with each other and get along very well Mrs. Chamberlain has been there made a long visit She gave E a dress and some other things and Mrs Childs sent her a dress and ten dollars money which pleased her very much Mrs. Russell has not got though with her law suit I am sorry for what she has done it will break friendship all round - the law of love is better I think than the love of law I am sorry Sister H has got to go I am fraid She wont tell a Straight story they live in Northfield yet I dont expect they will ever live on the farm I guess it will be Sold. I thought you was in Milo till you wrote was expecting you along every day I hope if you come back while I live you will come this way and make a long visit but do write often Is Almeda left with a good home and her children with her I wish I could see them it dont seem as if I could live through such a long Sudden journey as you did last Summer I have wrote a long letter and now you must guess it out if you can give my love to all friends. from your affectionate Sister B Conant

[left-hand side] I did not feel approved? at what you wrote but thought you was 70 years old & perhaps began to fail