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Elysia Jan 2 nd My Dear Mother

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whereabouts, she has been at Chickapee a little more than two weeks at the house & under the care of L. A.. Moody Esq. It is an excellent place & we feel very thankful that such an asylum is provided for her now the family is a real New England one of the good stock in moderate circumstances I have no fear that she will inbibe false notions of things there or be under any but desirable influences & her expenses of board & will not exceed that of the