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nothing worth sending: if I could think of it I dare say I could relate some Bangor news that would interest you, but I hardly know what to tell. The Lyceum closed some weeks since, there has been a course of lectures on Physiology, which I did not hear, and a recent Diorama show, not work much, I hear that a panorama of Mississippi & Ohio rivers is soon to be exhibited here, three miles long, which must be well worth seeing, if correct. Business is very brisk, much has been done and much is yet to do, to repair the devastation of the flood, the particulars of which I presume you have heard; Joseph was an actor and quite a heroic one in the drama: -- his health is tolerable now, he is always in a hurry, I see him only occasionally when he can spare an evening to call over and see me, -- it is about two months since I left boarding at the same place. Eliab goes on just as usual, he has got through his initiating year, and finds himself better situated in some respects, he does not like the Brown's as business men, yet I suppose they are as good as the average. -- Mrs. Brown has a pretty niece with her that E & J too, think well after one of [?] two, I presume! Miss Weld has been staying two or three weeks at Thom. S. White's -- her brother keeps for him, -- and now she has taken the city school, about the Bose Place, so she will be here all summer; I think you would do well to call and make acquaintance with Mrs. Weld, it may be an advantage to you: the more friends & even mere acquaintance one has, the more more means of making one's way well through the world. The Seminary is full and prosperous now, and Professors Shepherd and Pond are somewhat worse down with their pastoral labours in consequence of Mr. Pomroy's absence, in addition to their usual duties. They are both going to leave for awhile, Mr. S. is going to Andover to deliver a course of lectures, to