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exactly the state of your health: do you make use of cold water as remedy? Do you suffer much pain? Do you use at all Almeda's liniment? Do the doctor's call it a chronic nervous or merely local difficulty? Have you a pleasant, neat, smart girl? Have you any house plants this season? Have you sleighing yet? Our winter has commenced consisting of a change of weather once in a day or two, abundance of much, drizzling rain, winds shifting to every point of compass with a show with a show of snow for a day or two at a time. The steady winters of Maine are much to be preferred with their drifts, severe cold, yet clear, steady weather. You sending for the Mothers' Magazine in the way you did was a nice plan: upon what subject was your piece? I am truly sorry to hear of the afflictions of the Furber's, should like to hear more particularly from them: it is not a vain saying that 'afflictions are often blessings in disguise. A letter from Lizzie Doe, informs me that her youngest brother Frank a wild young man has recently been rather deranged is now at Chicago in the Insane Hospital.

  How is it that the central church has increased so little? Is the minister of the first church very popular? Glad I best remove my relation to this church? Ask E. whether it must be done by a formal letter from myself or through him or Samuel : I think Mr. Tinker little if any behind Prof Shepard as a preacher. Oh what a sermon he gave us on Thanksgiving day. I have just received 5 po worth of shoes at a sowing of from .25 to .37 on each pair. I shall be glad of the stockings. - cannot obtain any yarn for knitting except coarse and hard. I enclose fifteen dollars for E. to take care of. hope to lay by more next term.  Sister Anna

side I should be very happy to receive a line from Samuel: love to him, and Eliab, why does he not write to me.