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                                                                                                                                          Bangor Sept. 4 - 1853.

Dear Mother

                         Your most welcome letter was received two or three days since. I thank you much for writing so soon. I do hope you will write very often. I suppose you want to know everything that happens while you are gone, so I will scrible away as fast as I can. Thursday seemed rather a lonely day after you started. In the afternoon I got up stairs - the rooms, above and below, looked desolate enough. Friday morning at six Theodore and Sarah left in the Skohegan stage, and then the house looked more empty than ever. Friday afternoon Mrs. Vinal with her little fretting girl, nineteen months old, called. Saturday Mr. Noel & Mr. Wallace, two students came in to tea by Samuel's invitation. Mr. Noel as sent in  our pen you know, and Mr. Wallace is a very sociable little Scotchman, not long from the "auld countrie." Sabbath was communion. I went to church in the afternoon. An

[left-hand side] ? from my youth up there to go to Aunt Conant's & see Aunt Conant was the acme of felicity, notwithstanding the disappointment I there experienced in the matter of a brown bread cake once upon a time. Don't fail to go to Dunbarton. Ask Maria to write to me. Affectionately-daughter- Lucy.