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Home Remsen July 28/93 Dear Sister;

 I am sitting on your couch, end towards the parlor. Birds are singing and branches waving without . The curtain in front hall is fluttering, and I hear little crackling noises in the pantry from the paper on shelves as they are moved by the breeze. It is six minutes pat two P.M. I have had my lunch and a nap, and now will indulge in a little chat with you. this morning after looking, for the third or fourth time, for that "Macaulay, 

sideways in margins: Frankie is looking quite thin weighs 110 lbs. Has weighed 130, 120 last summer, I think she studies too hard & she has read unclear Cicero , and she looks in Virgil and now wants to read Livy while out of school. After reading Livy she will be ready for the Sophomore class. jumping the Freshman class. She wanted to go home and make arrangements to read Livy with some one in the Patent during this vacation. Then go to her Aunt Louise's & continue Livy during the year. -- Clara has quite a notion of going to Mt. Holyoke. Some time when she can not this year, as she must earn first . Maggie weighs 151 lbs! and looks noble they say