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Perhaps you will write us in your next what day you will come down and Annie and I will meet you, frame and all, at Utica. Write if possible, immediately about what time you will probably come. I fear my presence alone is hardly genial enough to compensate to David for his not going to Remsen as soon as he expected. He is not seeming well, neither does he seem sick, but he is sometimes very sober, and has but very little appetite. I want our friends to let me go home soon and take him along, but they will not hear of it. They seem bent on having you down first. We talk some of putting Davie on the cars at Utica, and writing you when he will come. He might wait some where till Eddie took the milk down; if one of the girls had no time to meet him at the depot and take him somewhere, perhaps