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[hand-made post mark] Bangor Me Feb. 25 Mrs. Anna Metcalf Milo Me

Ann & Isaac Feb. 25 Bangor

[left corner]25th eve Temperance Anniversary. Do you have a meeting at Milo or are you sound asleep on the temperance Question there? I have just been to an address, at Mr. Pomroy's, by Mr. Cheever, of the Seminary and a brother to the Cheever of "Deacon Giles' Distillery Memory." He is a very smart man but very young. By the way, Mr. Chapman lecture at Milo on Temp. a while ago? He was going to.

Send back my letters, same as I do your's wont ye?

[middle left] shameful as it may appear or really [bottom left]been since we sent the letter to Boston I have regretted that it was so maledictory; that I did not somehow, mitigate a little, the excess of Ann's fidget and condemnation of Joseph for his letter etc. Poor Joseph will be frightened almost out of his wits and not know anything what to do with himself at all This letter looks enough at least, what I have ? to scare one, anybody. You must try to excuse it, if possible I am so busy and so lazy nowadays that I cant spare time to write a good letter.