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                                                                                                                                    Milo Apr. 1st 1844

Dear Mother

Here I am at home in the little north room, and here I expect to stay for the present. I arrived at Bangor, Tues. eve March 19th - staid at Mr. Pomroy's a little more than a week - enjoyed myself much, came up with Mr. Cutts last Thurs. I found the schools in Bangor, begun when I got there, so I said nothing about it nor told any one that I thought any of taking one this spring - Mr. Walker and Wakefield are on the new committee chosen after I got there. I found Charles keeping house all alone and getting along very well: Lucy had been gone four weeks I suppose they have written you from Foxcroft, so you know more about them than I do, I had a comfortable passage, only I was very sea-sick and have hardly got over it yet. It cost me six dolls, and half to get to Bangor, to get to Milo $8,50 including all expenses, If I had known about the schools, and how comfortably Charles was getting along, I would have staid two or three weeks longer in Boston. I hope you will not be in a hurry to start, but stay till the 1st of May, at least, for it will be less expensive then, and the travelling will be very bad till about that time. I wish you would buy and bring a parcel of palm leaves really split, for I am convinced we could make something by braiding them to sell them one at a time round here. Almeda sent a letter to me while I was on the way home, sending for some things, which of course will be in Boston &c. but which you had better not take out, but let it go on to Washington as there is nothing of any consequence in it, Almeda can send her directions in this; When you first get to Boston we want you should fix upon a time to start for down east, - you can see by the papers the days the steamboat runs, and write to us when you are going to start, and Charles will be at Bangor - he wants to go down when it comes good wheeling, - if you write some to get any thing we think of, - either in Boston or Bangor. Mrs. Child when she learned my loss, presented me with $5,00 which was very kind of her.