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Springfield May 10th 1818 Dear Sister It is so seldom that we write to each other or see each other that I hardly know what to write to you we are all well and generally hav ben so since we keep hous I now do my work my self and Fanny & my girl is a spinning they hav spun better than 60 run? I hav considerable more to spin yet it is a hard way to get cloth to hav to hire all & it takes a great deal to clothe my family to hav them desent? there is the arms to them gloves if you have any white or lite colourd silk that will make thumbs I wish you would let me hav it and make the gloves for me if you know how