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for a time, I experience nearly the same feelings that I do when I meet my friends after a long absence. Aunt Abby was here yesterday and spent the day. She said that she had received a letter from you. Oh, Abby I must laugh at you falling in love with married gentlemen. I think that is rather poor business, for you cannot received any benefit from such sources, as their love has already been disposed if.

                                    You mentioned that Mary would remain at home this summer and teach in the autumn. Now isn't she at home preparing to teach a school for life? I wish she would write to me  - it would offer me much pleasure to receive a letter from her. You wish me to visit you when we have our summer vacation, but I hardly think that I can accept of your kind invitation, as I already have two or three places where I have promised to go. I hope that at some future time that mother and I can visit Warwick together. I have always had a great desire to see the place but more especially your mother. If Charles is at home tell him he must take his mother and come to Somerville, for we should like to see them both very much.