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Bangor Oct. 20 55

                                                                                                                               Bangor Oct. 20 - 1853.

Dear Mother

                 Your good letter was welcomed yesterday noon. Maria was here all day, and Eliab to dinner, - Lizzie has just gone to school and baby to sleep, so I embrace this opportunity of quiet to write all the letters I have time to before I am interrupted, - commencing, of course, with yours.
                 In the first place, don't you think this paper is too nice to write "to you" on? Well, if it is, 'tis not my fault. I sent by Samuel for some common small sheets and he got this - he said it was only a trifle higher priced & nicer paper. In the next place, I am thoroughly provoked with Mr. Morrell for his mean unaccommodatingness - it is outrageous & abominable. I remember how very hard the wind blew that day. His wife you know is a cousin to Mrs. Griffith, and I ascribe that and his refusing to bring the shoe, to his

[left-hand side] he said it was inappropriate to "beg our daily bread in blank verse." Every one should strive to fix the attention & follow the train of thought - "call back the wandering soul & hold it sternly till it would delightfully stay." I wish I could write you a great deal of it. we have not heard from Anna again. I must try to write to her today. Maria cannot pattern her velvet at Hartford so she will get Ladies cloth for a cloak. I have actually washed baby's petticoat - the second one he has had washed in his life. Have got one flannel dress almost done. The one ? for our church has come. It is being set up this week. Mrs. Chas. Crosby sent up for Lizzie to come to spend the afternoon with her.