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                                                                                               Cedar Grove Dec 7 1850
 J.M. to I.S.  We have discover'd here a considerable quantity of drawing paper which perhaps you intended to take also a pr of secheché tho's rent peal integuments. Science has achieved another triumph in ascertaining the plant you handed me the other day to be polygala paucifolia having thus almost least possible affinity to the respected family Orchidaceae we found after you went a paper of Genseng seeds. Mr. Partridge has come.

Dec. 15 From the results of the census thus far if the ratio of increase during the elapsed portion of the present month may be taken a basis of calculation it appears probable that before the birth of your oldest child the Population of Cedar Grove will be not less than three thousand and forty eight persons 19. Received yours of 15 the previous one has not come to hand, the Stove pipes etc. are also not arrived, I am anxious to know the precise where the R.R. enter Bangor, & where the depot is to be Did Johns troops ? or was the superceded in command, How do the lame ones at Walter Browns come on. You do not very clearly instruct us where to direct a letter to you Thanksgiving Evening Bundles just arrived containing Stove pipe, Bedecking, Moliere, Arthimetic, Bark, no Bed rope