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  Saratoga Springs Nov. 11,  

Dear Brother and Sister,

   I ought to have written to you before, but have been so busy after coming here, as hardly to have time to write, that is, when I felt like it.  I understood that Mr. Wood wrote to you Monday, and this relieved me somewhat, for I thought that you would thus learn of my arrival, and Sarah's improvement although I had not done my duty,  Mr. W. probably told you that Sarah came down stairs and met me in the parlor, did he tell you how they took me home with them the night I reached here and Mr. W. came with me and carried my sachel the next morning!  They were