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Friday 27th, The mail will leave tomorrow and I must close this today we set up our cook - stove yesterday, our log kitchen looks quite nice and comfortable. I don't know the rain may affect it - believe it - leaks sometimes - O dear the mosquitoes have swarmed here for the last - three days it does seem as though we should be eat up alive. I thought I knew something about them before I came here but find I was mistaken they just spoil the country in my way of thinking. Mother seems quite disappointed I am afraid she repents of coming, she said to me since I began to write - "I suppose you wont advise Samuel to come here." I told her of course I shouldn't, well "I wouldn't either" she replied, I don't know much about the society here Hellen says there is some very good, Theodore drove over a cow and calf the other day and made a present of it - to mother, we bought one of Haskell paid $30 are obliged to let the calves have part of the milk all summer to bring the cows home at night - It seems as though I ought to fill this sheet - but the children are in here turning the books, topsy-turvy and the flies bite so I am about half crazy, do write often I want to hear from Lucy, how does the damsel Frances get along? and how does the steam mill prosper? and the vessels? I want to hear all about it. Father has gone to St Paul today coming back tomorrow by Stillwater. Have you heard from Lizzie Doe? She left us at Buffalo I should like to know how she got along. I think I shall go over to Olive's next week and stay two or three weeks perhaps if I don't get homesick, she calls her baby Mary Elizabeth she is a very good child, Warren calls his boy William Henry, Olive says she wrote to you soon as she got your letter after Lucy was taken sick last fall, but I think you never received the letter. Mr Haskell is very kind and pleasant and a great talker says he should not have known me, Theodore did not know John, well good by - don't imagine me homesick all the time only once in awhile when the fit comes over me. Your affect sister Mehitabel