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Lewiston, Me. Jan. 8 1871. Dear Aunt Sarah,

   It seemed so nice to get a letter from you when you hadn't written to me for so long.  We live so far away from each other, and visit each other so seldom, it seems as though we ought to write oftener, don't it?

We have got our melodeon and it is real nice but oh, not quarter as nice as a piano! I liked it ever so much though but am in hope that we shall have another piano sometime. We had had one or two good sings with our melodeon. Johnnie sings base, Lizzie sings part of the time alto and part of the time treble and I sing treble. O, Johnnie has got a splendid voice for base, I wish you could hear