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                                                                                                                     Milo 14 Oct. 1851
           There is a kind of planning in being under no restraint, or perhaps more properly a gratification of indolence, for instance I can sit down to work in the most perfect negligee in regard to dress or any thing else, nobody knows, & nobody cares.
      The children too can take comfort in pouring down to my carpet, as they have just done the little wagon full of dirty playthings of every text then Lucy Jane & Charlie racing through the rooms with any quantity of mud on their feet drawing the baby about. Such little things would be an annoyance to you somewhat as "it would be to me to sit prink'd up ready to receive and that in word without meaning with hollow hearted 'Callers,,

15 I forgot all about giving James any money to pay his expenses on the way up, but you will some of you see that he is supply'd. Mrs. Richer has done