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Mount Washington Sept 22d 1849

Dear Mother I should have written to you on our way out could I have done so conveniently I know I ought to have written to you immediate -ly upon our arrival & should have done so but Sarah wrote to Lydia & I thought it would useless for me to write to you at the same time. Since then I have been very busy with my school getting it organized & c. We have a large school & probably shall have a much larger one than we now have before the session is out. We have enough to occupy our whole time & if we have good health I think we shall do well this session. My health is quite good now, better than it has been since last Autumn, & sister is very well but she has most to much I think to do. We commence school at 8 in the morning & close at 5 in the evening, Sister is taking lessons in music, which keeps her busy from 7 to 9 in the evening. Miss Weeds prospects for a music class look more favorable than