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Hope. Feb. 22nd 1963 My dear brother & sister: I was very glad to receive your kind letter, and to hear of you and the children. Glad to hear you were all comfortably well. Glad you had got some coal. Glad O'rocke had gone, and you were going to have another girl. Glad I was mistaken in thinking I was forgotten. Glad my voice was missed at devotions. Glad little Eddie remembers Auntie Mary, and ask God each night to bless her. And I assure you each expression of kind remembrance is heartily reciprocated. I find my school-house and school in many respects pleasanter than I anticipated. My school-house is a new, neat looking white building very pleasantly located in a grove which in summer must be very delightful. The play-ground is enclosed by a board fence. Inside, I found Sherwood's newly improved patent school furniture, seats and desk, maps, charts, three good sized black boards and a little one, a globe a magnet a little frame of balls ("like Sarah Taylors" Abby) for the little ones mathamatical exercises, a stove like the one in your parlor, (but much injured and in need of the polish) a clock, &x. &c and the windows shaded with curtains like those in your kitchen, I have 50 pupils have had 55 but 4 or 5 of the written down left hand side of page