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Northampton July 18th 1855

Dear Father:

As I do not see as you are ever a going to write that letter that you said you was a going to write to me when you got out there, I might as well write first. The folks are all well. I was at home Sunday last. James Warner came out there at night to look at the grass, and as you left no word [illegible scratched out letter] in reference to it, he concluded to put it in the barn. I suppose that you know that [S.?] Gutter took [scratched out word] tends [scratched out word end] the corn at halves; he is to husk and put it into the bin. There is considerable grass on the piece east of the barn. The man who wrote to from Greenfield called here