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I had taken. Had felt bad for me all Summer. Knew I had not enjoyed myself, Had been on the point of speaking about it several times but being related, delicacy prevented etc. Said she hoped I would make up my mind to take the school again next Summer, when this would all be forgotten etc. She & Mr. D. have been very friendly to me, & sweet little Emily kissed & hugged me there different times & cried when I came away.

 You inquire for G? and great fat David Walton. They both visit at Dudleys; the former as Juliett's, the latter as Susannah's accepted suitors. W.P. Hale is a constant visitor at Mr. Clark's. Mr. & Mrs. Sherburne were very kind to me. I almost forgot to tell you that Mr. Walker & two Students found their way into my school the last afternoon, just when I did'nt want them. Mr. Walker's engagement with Eliz. Doe is broken by her. 
    We are so much disappointed as you can be that you don't come home this fall, but don't dare to say much about it lest it should make you more discontented where you are. You must try to make yourself contented & happy there & come home in the spring if possible. You must write very often & so will we. affectionately Sister Lucy. 

Sept 23rd 1845 Milo Turner Sept 18 Mr. Isaac S. Metcalf 5

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[right-hand side] Almeida & children are well send much love to Uncle Isaac. Theodore & Sarah have gone to Wisconsin. Albina Kittredge is attending her Uncle Bickford's Academy at Warren for three or six months. Good chance for her. She, Olive & Mehitable Furber, Abby Hill, Olive Sargent, two Wilder girls & myself, besides a multitude of Drakes, Snows etc. have been teaching School this Summer. Milo turns out well! Milo Sept 18, 1845 L.H.M. [bottom of page upside down] If I go to Bangor, shall probably in a fortnight or three weeks. Write to me won't you? People are in a sad case about Potatoes. We shall all have to learn to do without. Charles says where he was expecting several hundred bushels he will not have more than enough to keep his hogs a f?. He says it takes two rows from as far as here to the barn to fill a bushel basket. They are rotting badly, but that is not all; they generally yield only a very few small watery potatoes, the size of walnuts, % so. Our Corn & beans are very good, & other crops, I believe which were cut in season but Charles has been so unwell and unable to get any help, that his grain has been neglected & is some of it dropping into the ground. We had a hard frost last week that killed the vines, corn etc. I wish you could see little Lizzy. She is the prettiest & most interesting of A's children. She can sing alone eight or ten tunes correctly. Lisps just as she used to. I wish you would write a good long letter to Almeda sometime. She would thing a great deal of it now. In great haste Sister Lucy.