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I pushed my way through the copse, past the catalpas, the Crab the Fringe Tree, the Cherries etc. on the old office path we trod so often. You would not know it. And when through to the fence, the office corner is a nice patch of corn! The other corner, where Smith's store was is a smart patch of seeds, Mrs Shinney's house even is not to be seen for shrubbery; and the is the case with most of the houses. And the roads are grown up with weeds. There I guess I have given you a pretty good idea of Old Duquoin as it now is. As for the country around, it is smartly fenced up, and has fine crops on it, lots of Maclura hedge growing. I saw today corn 10 or 12 ft. high; other just coming up. I did very much hope to get a letter from you yesterday but it did not come. I shall be ready to leave tomorrow noon, but shall wait till night in hope to get a letter. All at DuQuoin inquire diligently for you. All want to see you there again. You will write to St Paul, I hope before you get this, and afterward to Elyria. Good night Ettie Isaac S.