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Dear Daughter Milo 26th Oct. 1851 Thank you very much for your letter of 20-23 hope to have occasion to thank Eliab for a good long one soon - I stay at home today because I have a cold and headache. Lissie to keep the cow from the corn Jane to help take care of little Jane who gets up alone in the floor and walks alone some & creeps some. All the rest & Charlie are gone to meeting. I am so glad you are getting well so smart but I rejoice with humbling lest you be ? down again in a fine day, take care I charge you and go forward. Am very glad to hear of Eliab's being so well employ'd- moreover I think it would on the whole be no loss to him if he should "loaf,, all this winter if thereby he can get a well back & sound health provided nevertheless that he should not get so fond of the business as not to be willing to have it off. In the meantime he might get him a Wife if he can get any body that would have him. I don't exactly understand who it was that astonished him so. However I feel rather sorry if it was Mag' for I really much liked the family so far as i had opportunity to know any thing about them. As we have but one life to live in the world and that a short one, I don't see why it would'nt be a good plan for Sam'l & Eliab to go in to business [left-hand side] I have not got any envelopes but no matter.