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To any love ones,

  We had a letter Saturday from Cynthia - the first word we had had from home since I left and very good indeed it seemed to us to receive it. I suppose you have had Mary's letter and mine also ere this and know that our kind friends Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Jones are taking care of me. I have a very pleasant place here and the family are all very kind, I do not know how I shall ever repay them. Tell her please to write a few words if no more in your next.
  Friday Mary and I went to visit Mr Evan Griffith - had a very pleasant visit there and they said if I would come and stay there a night they would make me a bed on the sofa - Mr Lewis Thomas also invited

in margins: and as their Lodge meets Friday evening I would have gone with them if I had not been anxious to get back to Mr. Jones before it should be late. — The young lady who keeps books there is the daughter of Mr. Field and a Holyoke scholar. They all received Mary very cordially and would be very glad to have her come back there to stay. We ordered each of us a pair of lined kid gloves which are to be done tonight. Some of the young ladies there are glove makers and of them took our measure. There was one of the city saisonaries? there that evening and the family were all together in the large parlor singing and one was playing on the melodeon, they all seemed very happy and Saturday went to the Bath House and Cooper's Institute and must tell you about that again will try to write to Mr. Northrup