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your ancient Comrad Martha J. Tash is Teacher of Music etc. at an Academy in Lee, Springfield, or that region, Dr. Isaac Case of Levant is journeying in the Western states and writes very good letters thereupon to the "Bangor Courier,, We had a letter from Ann this week saying that she would start from Racine Oct. 7th, Crossing Michigan by R.R., reaching by Steamboat Erie Pa., and journeying thence to Westfield N.Y., where she would spend the Sabbath with a friend. With Company from that place she would proceed on her journey to Boston.

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 Mother has been worrying? about you & Anntoinette, inferring from your long silence in regard to her that you have been jointly & severally jilted.
Oct. 21  In the New England Travels of one Dwight it is stated, that, as New England exceeds other regions in the beauty of its Autumnal Forests, so New Hampshire (particularly thirty miles about Lancaster) exceeds in that respect other portions of N.E. Do you notice such Superiority in your region? Poplar leaves fall early, and where they remain, take nearly the same yellow shade with those of the Larch & white Birch, so that the view from these windows partakes but slighly of the magnificence usually predicated of our Oct. Forests. 
The best specimen I have seen of "Oft the ear the open vowels tine," is this line in a poem I recently read  - 
  "Ye who oer holy Davids sacred wines"

I have received the first Volume of the first of the Waverly Novels, & propose to commence reading it soon. we have not heard that Ann has arrived at Hamden.

  Johns 4 months of labor ended Saturday.