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I am unusually rejoiced at your letter received today. It is quite a mercy to me it came so speedily less time on the road I guess than any other I have had. I was unusually pleased at it, because I had been fearing all day that your fright & exposure the night of the fire might have made you sick. and I should have felt anxious about it till I got another letter, if ie had been a week. My letters seem to be longer getting from here to Elyria, than yours from there here. You received two last Thursday seven & nine days from here; mine this week have been only four & five days from you. The Baptists are now talking of starting here at this point some kind of a school. I hardly know whether a College or a Theological Seminary, though I suppose they mean a place to educate their young preachers. It is as yet uncertain what they will do. You have no idea what beautiful weather it is here now. Spring has come here really and in earnest. It has been to today as warm as May. The grass really begins to look quite green; and as for the wheat fields why they are already as bright as June. The Cooing, or rather roaring, of the Prairie