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Joseph. This sheet is partly to you the other to Anne & a word to Eliab. Thursday Dec. 2d. It is Thanksgiving Day in Vermont. but I do not happen to be there today. It is a very rainy day. but a time in the Northfield R.R. office. The President Alvah Crocker Esq. is about & some of the Directors full of all kinds of business. The Head Bookkeeper & Pay Masters of the Corporation are up here, paying off Irishmen &c. &c. by scores. Bills of all kinds for piles & sleepers, & plank & stone, and work & Board, and every thing else. Besides all this Engineers are up from below, with the Conn. River big bridge builders; drawing off plans, profiles, elevations, sections, beds, foundations, abutments piers, parapets, &c. &c. &c. of the bridge. it is rather a busy time for a rainy day. You may imagine that We underlings have to