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is now building a shed 15 square all by himself. Nancy's oldest son Rollin is boarding there going to school is a fine pleasant boy but not as yet very efficient. I hardly think he will suit his purpose for next summer; his mother feels very tender of him because he has not been healthy, has been subject & is still, to severe [unclear] of nosebleed. Naomi is making [unclear] dark blue [Thiber?] over for Libby. she has fixed over the pink de Laine prettily .She is always ready to help good soul & capable about every thing she & I together papered the girl's bedroom by the kitchen one forenoon nicely with a remnant we had in the house using two kinds & it looks very neatly. Our fruit is rather poor & of all amount this year. apples are all wormy & decay so fast. I wish I could convey half of them to Milo the remainder would not keep all, I fear till we can use them. We had but few good grapes, I have made 23 bowls of jelly of the poorer ones & no preserves; we had a few peaches a bushel or two perhaps I have made a little peach preserve & a jar of sweet pickles; apples also; the grapery was quite a failure there were many grapes black Hamburg & white but all mildewed & blasted only a bunch or two that could be eaten. the wood of the grapery, [wunclear] &c is much decayed. Mr. Brooks is now at work repairing & making new, so the doctor hopes to secure, protect, & train the vines so as to have a good yield next year. We have had remarkably fine, mild weather all the fall, not any frost as yet to do injury. my plants are flourishing, I have a fine [balve?] geranium & two or three slips just rooted, a "Lady Washington des. & one or two other new ones. Lottie's mother has come to spent the winter with her a woman of shallow nature like Lottie except that she is a great talker; all about my & mine: Lottie's baby is sever weeks old a bright & healthy boy,