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as kind and good as she can be. I wish you all knew her better, you could not fail to love her. She has first? taken me as a sister. She has been well enough to go about with me, quite a good deal, & Dr. Clarke has been very good taking me riding with him, so I have been very fortunate and seen a great deal of Chicago already. The Clarkes are a very intelligent well read family, and in some respects very pleasant to live with, what company they have is good. I think I shall be going to Jefferson next week for a short time. I do not know very much at them yet having only been there one day. unclear Clarke's wife is very cordial and pleasant. the two oldest boys are at college. I forget where just now, two small boys at home & two girls one 13, the other 5, a very lively pleasant home they seem to share. I think I shall enjoy myself there very much. I have seen Clarke twice he has been to see M. A. he seems pleasant, kind & genial. He has been to Colorado for his health, but did