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   May 19, Steuben Stone Academy 

My dear Sister;

    It seems a long time since we  heard from you last. We are quite anxious to  hear how you are, and how you are getting along  with your studies. I thought you said you were  going to write a great many letters during the  vacation, but I assure you we have not seen  much of the fruit of your labor. Dear Mary  we have been very negligent in writing to you  of late, but you must "forgive and forget" wont  you dear  Mary.  I thank you very much for those  few lines you wrote me in your last letter.  You are a good girl for remembering your sister  Anna. We got that letter and another one to  Sarah from you, the same day. I wrote to Siryei  yesterday, it is a good while since we have heard from  her. We have been expecting her up here now for  some time, but have seen nothing of her  as yet. She wrote wrote a good while ago and said