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be very glad to pay your expenses both here & back if you will come & when you want to go home Charles Charles & Albina must come here & visit us - Eliab & Mallie must come too - It is I think one of our first duties as well as a large source of earthly happiness to keep up by frequent intercourse the family ties in all their strength & all the more need after by separate families the circle becomes subdivided into smaller & separate households.-- It seems to me Charles might come sometime in the course of the season with such of his family as he could bring & it would do him good as well as us. I keep in mind that Mallie promised her first journey should be to Elyria. -- We have had some pretty cold weather not so much or so severe as last winter - we hope the peaches are not blasted for next season: It is quite moderate now & the winter so far advanced that we shall not probably in this climate have much if any more severely cold weather. The doctor has hardly I think regained his tone of health since his severe sickness last summer but is generally pretty well: I was really quite "poorly" last fall but am now very well - was depressed, with little energy & hopeful feeling, but it is now altogether different I believe I am like you in that my spirits & tone of mind are apt to be dependent on the state of health more than is the fact with some people. We have been reading Dr. Ware lately, have now '[[unclear Eva' and 'Master Pieces of Pulpit Eloquence' & sermons from each noted one of the 'unclear from gentullion down to the present age you would be greatly interested in the work I think. Miss Woodbury likes her new boarding place very well - comes iin once in a while. Mr. Wilbur's father & mother have moved to Elyria. he has bought a small farm near uncle Hall's, cousin Jenny is teaching this winter succeeds well - Hiram her brother is at unclear