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The Cravats came safely to hand yesterday. How did you know I did not wear any thing on my neck in warm weather? I do though, have none ever since I got back here, a bit of a stock, a few horse hairs slightly covered with a few threads of silk; keeps up better than any handkerchief & is cooler & lighter than any thing else. They are very nice ones you sent, & so in the Pocket & I have got one on my neck today. I puzzled a long time to think who the Miss Herd you mentioned as coming to Dinner could be; but I finally thought. She was Mrs. Foss; and a very pleasant sort of woman. What could have possessed her to marry him. Now Charles speaks of it I remember all about him as well as her, a wretched hog. Quart of Peanuts! What an investment! I suppose Apples cost so much you could n't buy them. You say nothing of oranges, Pine Apples & Bananas. I take it you did not even dare to enquire the price of them. You did not say how much Samuel got for his horse. What is "Father Bang!!"? the book you got for Parish Side. Going a Shopping again- again! How afraid I am you will wastefully spend your money! I expect you could see the prints of your fingers on those gold peices where you have held on to them - couldn't you? You ought to write to me how the store hold out, how many peices you have left. I wish you would spend enough to dress respectively - decently at least; and that you would contrive to do it for both yourself & baby without sewing so yourself so. Perhaps too you could make Mallie & Lucy sundry nice presents. Suppose now you get them each a good silk dress. Wouldn't it be a good plan? Remember now have been enjoying their hospitality these two months. I really believe we ought to. In right we ought to pay them for Sabra's board. But I suppose they would not take it. Come Ettie, if you will get each of them a $25.00 dollar silk dress, you may have another yourself. That is right. Go now to Eliab and get 100.00 giving him a receipt in my name and use it in that way. Do now. It is wicked to put so many stitches into clothes- very wicked - that is especially doing it yourself. If you could hire people who business it is, and pay them fairly for it it would not be so bad If you can not get work done for you just let it go. At any rate do not Ettie - for my sake - so so sew so yourself. By the way you write me nothing at all about your health - how do you think I have to do to find any thing about it. Crosby got a letter from home the other day, & his mother wrote that your health was improving. I rejoiced at the news it was more than I had heard from you. I wish you could get Mother to go to D. Mrs. Keyes doubtless did not want me there, tried to get me away as she best could. Why how nice it would have been for your father & Mother to have come down to Bangor & go home with you. You could have paid their Expenses, you know. Truly Yours Isaac S.M.