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had a good deal of snow in March more I think then in the winter then for sometime very pleasant bright weather I saw a little bit of snow in the ditch by the roadside as we went to the cemetery last Friday none since and it has been very dry & dusty lite the rain might before last. Yesterday it rained some but only a little. I went down street with Hattie & Azia got me a pair of stockings and a little white lace for my neck. They are wearing black but white on the neck and sleeves-Have you that last letter sister E wrote? Brother B would like to preserve it if ma can spare it. He showed me a sheet on which she had written two lines begining a letter to you thhus "Hillsdale, Mar. 13,1877- My dear sister Sarah-That pleasant visit with you and William, how I have enjoyed it again and again." They often speak of you visit and seem so glad that you made it. They did want very much to have Mary come or that some of us could have been with her at the last. It would have been such a comfort= br. B says, but she did not like to ask it. He said somtimes he felt as tho' he must