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It is three weeks since I left Westfield. My school closed just one week previous. examination passed off well. Mr. Pilsbury the Principal has resigned, but i believe I mentioned about this in my last. One of the Trustees wished a place for a relative who would also be in his Law Office; I do'nt know how it will affect me, I do not feel my position very stable there is so much self-interest, divided feeling & counter working in these small places. Your friend Argyle Rumsey, is sick, was confined to the house a month with a severe attack of pleurisy with a bad cough, could sit up but little for two or three weeks, is not better but still has a cough with some symptoms of consumption to which disease his family are subject. Mariette wrote me that he is now able to ride to the Harbour, tannery, &c. Just before I left, I received a letter from Lucy stating that mother was there and herself in improved health, Sam is very busy, and Eliab decides upon leaving Brown's; he has not written me lately. I hope letters from there have by this time reached you. Lizzie Doe has written to me here she is homesick; finds things different from her anticipations. her brother has been sick, is not very prosperous in circumstance, perhaps not very efficient; she is not pleasantly situated. She is in providence, Bureau Co. a little back from the Illinois River, If you can be sure of its safe conveyance, had you not better send that book and write a little to her [unclear] to her by mail; I wish you had done