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to hear from you & the little ones, and suppose I can not until we reach there. My Old Chief & chum, Mr A.R. Field is now at Greenfield, upon the Tunnel Route, and hearing I had been at Brattleboro & gone out to Warwick, wrote to intercept me here. very urgent indeed to have me stop then a little while at any rate. I may do so. I have not seen him since I first went West. I tell Mother I shall tell Anne, & write to Lucy that she (Mother) has been out riding (by horse) the tree coldest days this Winter! What will they say to that? Yesterday the Thermometer was not above Zero F. at any time all day here. 13 below in the morning. However Mother was very well protected. She had on Aunt Hannah's great Wadded Cloak & Capes, with Shawles all over her head and shoulders, & then closely wrapped up in a covered sleigh, so she could not be cold. I did want to go over to Royalston & perhaps should yesterday morning, if I had had a good horse. You must go around here sometime Nettie.