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Evans, Robt Hughes and Jane, and in the evening I cannot tell how many or who, only that they did not leave much for me to do. I was out in amongst the friends almost all the time, once in a while I would go to the office or the cake room and offer to help. but they said did not need me and so I would go back and visit. We did not do but very, little baking ourselves neither did we send anything to anyone to be baked - the friends did it all all - and very nice cakes did they make quite a number of them frosted. We had a very full house tho' there was an exhibition in Prospect and another in Trenton the same evening. They brought for our father in money $200, and in goods a little more than $9, without saying anything about all the goodies they brought for the tables. I believe pa came very near crying when he found how many were coming and how much they brought - he said it was more than twice