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Nov. 27. Your excellent letter received on yesterday to my especial gratification; and also one from Mother. Eliab I do not hear from at all, not Lucy very often lately nor from Ann for a very long time. Are you not a little too severe upon me on the Sujet of Old Oxford, & its rocks & hard pans? One would think from your remarks that I know nothing at all of said Oxford; never lived there, or even travelled there. Are'nt I been in & been acquainted in about every County in Maine? and I am not better acquainted in Oxford than in any County except Piscataquis? But -- I have been in N.H. too.

 Yours Mr. Ferrar I probably at first confounded with Phinehas Barnes. I now remember him more distinctly. It appears to me though I did not have a very great opinion of him. He is not a great man like his Class Mate Peleg Whitman Chandler; either intellectually or physically, but unless you have lost weight some he must be rather stout for a little fellow. By the way did you ever hear the names of those Chandlers of Boston P.W.& T. P. Polly wog & Tad pole! They are first class men.

Vt. & Mass. R.R. Stocl par is $100.00 per share. New stock has however been issued at 75. & some at .50.00 The road is a great one, an expensive one: but it is completed thoroughly made & finished, and well furnished. I cannot yet believe that it will not be eventually good property: way 75. certainly at 50. If the road is ever built across the Mountain to N.H. Vt & Mass. stock would be above par. I have supposed however there was very little of it really in market or to be bought. Few of the original country stockholders now probably sell for 30. or ever 50. The sales may be among brokers & speculators, trying to crowd the stock down & get it cheap. Have not heard from Samuel, or his Flour purchase. Do you really believe that Flour is a good & safe article to buy & store? -- Risky --