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Brownville June 22 1844

Dear Brother

It is a long time since I have either written to, or received a letter from you, though I believe I have done my duty rather better than you, for I wrote you one letter from Warwick, and a piece of another just before your last visit at home. I was sorry it happened so that I saw so little of you, when you were at home: I have scarcely seen you for a year, and one's feelings and habits of thoughts sometimes alter rapidly, - and undergo such transitions at your susceptible age, that ere? long I shall scarcely feel that I am acquainted with you as a sister should be, - an elder sister, - with that interior apartment of the thoughts and feelings, which alone furnishes the key to the character.