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quite a good scholar in grammar & arithmetic Probably a good school would do her more good a year or 2 hence than now Charles still talks about selling his farm & going west - His farm tho a very good one is in just such a place that he has had no opportunity to sell & I doubt if he ever will - He talks that he shall get what he can off of it 2 or 3 years & then leave it if he can find a good place somewhere else Eliab took his grey horse to use a while & then sell he has now sold it for $162 1/2 - And has bought a little bit of a creature (weighs: 700) for about 60, which they extol very much. Maria is very well xxxxx but I dont believe Mattie will go away unless it is for a short time - They have got everything nicely arrang'd here to suit them all as different as may be from what it was I am very glad to have them here if Sam'l must break up his home but O what a change I did feel very sad a while - Lucy gone all her things away & the keen apprehension that Sam'l & P. will go away I do love Sam'l as an own Son & should feel worse perhaps about his going off - Maria of the feeling that when gone they