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the melodeon; she plays fairly and we have had some good sings since she came home. I wish you were here to play Oak or "Far, far away".

  I will try to remember to put that little piece of ribbon in this letter. I hope you have not needed it. I have commenced a pair of white worsted underdrawers for you, but have not quite finished them. I hope you wlil like them. I thought perhaps they would be uncomfortable to wear to school cold weather. I have a pair and I like them very much. 
  I don't feel very well today so you must excuse this short letter. Sis, I helped Nellie? yesterday and was careless and took cold. It has been sometime since we had a letter from John.

Mary Jones' (Ames) health is very good this summer, but Ellen is not very well. She teaches school in Penymynyth: her Album is here