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Remsen Aug. 8, 1891 My dear Sisters, We were very glad indeed to get your letter last evening and to know that you are able to enjoy yourselves so well. We hope your visiting will not be lost upon you but that it will do you both good and also our kind friends Mr. and Mrs. Evans. They must sadly miss their daughter Mary - just think what a lonely parsonage pa's would be were all the daughters married. I guess it would require a considerable stretch of the imagination to conceive of such a thing! Well, with your letter came one from Sarah Ann Tubbs which I inclose

Cousin Mary has had a letter from Alick written on ship board the day before they expected to land - He had not been much

I believe quite well again - they were all in church Sunday and Lewis has worked in the office yesterday and today - Mrs Charles and two children are visiting at Hugh Jones' and we have invited them to take tea with us as soon as they can - they went to Isaac Pierce' today The cucumbers are thriving - Robbie found a spendid twin among them the other day, Would you believe it Frank the dogs and not the chickens was the devourer of our ripening tomatoes Robbie had shut him out of the garden and we can leave them on the vines to ripen -