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helping me, which is a great benefit to the school. I think the advantage to her cannot fail to be considerable, she has been invited with company once already here at (Mrs Shepherd) and will be whenever she has company she and I are going to visit Mr. Harlow's next week she begins tomorrow to attend singing school two evenings in a week, a large genteel school two evenings in a week, & I talk of getting up a little reading circle, if we do Lucy will be one so that altogether I think she will have valuable advantages besides the religious privilege's She will not work so hard, nor so much exposed to cold, as at home & her board saved is something, I don't think you have any right to worry about her if she was in Lowell factory like Tip Furber there would be more reason; here she is protected, defended & watched over: - I shall be at lease as careful of her as would be of myself: Joseph on the same sheet to go with & wait upon her. As to yourself, there is certainly no need that you should work hard and get fatigued; but instead of that, do enjoy yourself, read, write letters to as, & to Warwick friend, and take comfort, thinking how near your children are, most of them within half a day's ride; & how much gratitude is due our Heavenly father that we are all so comfortably & pleasantly situated, especially that the boys, just come upon the stage of action, promise so fair for future respectability & usefulness. J & E are both becoming known and respected. The week that has just passed has been one of leisure to me, as well as pain. I have been wearing two pairs of cotton drawers but Mrs. S not having had washing done for sometimes, mine were most all dirty, so a week ago (Sunday I put on but one pair, thinking I could make up the deficiency by wearing a warmer skirt but Monday my back began to be lame & tuesday morning I could scarcely move with out screaming - real rheumatism. So I sent to