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Dear Mother I have just been washing Lydia Ann helping a very large wash and feel too tired to write but it is going to send it to night so I'll just say that we are getting along well my health as usual is pretty good if I don't have too much work to do I wrote to get me some calico but now I shall not be able to wait till you come for all that I want but should be glad to have you get me a cheap dress 8 yds as good as you can for /9 per yard I should like a pretty bag which can be obtained at the paint shops and if you can find anywhere in your peregrinations some new coriander and saffron seeds I should be very glad of some give my love to my friends in that country also in Boston the pain in my stomach is too severe for me to say much now so I'll let Ann finish the letter. If Eliab comes home, I should think it would do for him to stay one night at Mr. N. Harlow's, it would be better than for him to go to Mr. Pomroy's I was there so long. Lydia Ann is at work for Almeda this week is going to help me, next, week to wash as there has been none done, for four weeks or more, though things are in better order than I should expect, and with her help a few days I shall get them in good time.

Dear Mother I don't know but Lucy wrote you that I have sold the black horse & sleigh to Gilman for 100, days work on the house, he has worked about 40 and is going to work about 30 more in the spring commence about the 1st of May and the rest next winter, Jack Frost has lifted so hard at the house that I cannot put the work together till the ground settles so that it shall not be able to get it plastered till just before haying I think unless Eliab can find a pretty good chance chance in Boston or somewhere else that he had better come home for there will necessarily