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I have only got two letters from you since I left home, How many I have written I can hardly tell. Yours were mailed the 5th & 8th. I hope to get another tomorrow. How much longer I shall remain here I cannot tell. I mean to try to get home by Christmas but may not. There is much to attend to and I ought to spend more of my time here. But the fact is, especially of late years that I do sort of like to stay at home, certainly when my wife and children happen to be there. Had not we better move out here Nettie? There is really a great need of "dacent people" here. There is for a new RR Town a very fine proportion of such. But as every where else they need strengthening. The Mines bring in a great understratum of the very worst. They have got so strong here just now as to govern, I hope it will not continue. Liquor selling is regularly licensed, and prevails enormously