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we have sent for Emily. expect her in the spring when Mrs. Williams returns. I shall be bitterly disappointed if she does not come the heart longs for its own kindred, and though I have said but little about it as being useless yet I assure you, I have thought and felt enough - but my comfort in this as well as in every thing else, is that all things are ordered by a kind providence, and we have the promise that "all things work together for good to them that love him" - it becomes us then, to do every known duty, and leave every event with him and to be content, though he shall not always give us our desire, for he know much better than we, what is for our good. I must stop to give Theodore room. Sabbath Evening, do not let this lie unanswered a great while yours Helen Dear Brother, Sarah has left a space for me to fill but I hardly know what to write that will interest you unless it is something about our domestic affairs and I suppose you have lernt about our Territorial and political affairs by Warner and the Newspapers, as Warner is one of the leading political characters of our New Territories, he was speaking in the house reps. - was very popular his pay was six dollars per day, very good pay I think, the Govenor is very much liked, and the Officers of the Territory generaly I believe two of the Judges have bought land in our neighbourhood and will open farms next summer there was a large emigration here last summer and it is thought by those that pretend to know that there will be an emigration to this Territory next summer of ten thousand souls, and I sincerely think that you had better be among the number I might give my reasons but I suppose it of no use