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[woke?] quite [cheerly] - had over some of her funny • and said she expected to be confined this month. Miss Safford's health is poor yet though she had improved much - and seemed as hopeful as ever. Mrs Baily I have never heard from since I left [Saratoga?]. The most of the • have written me [but?] for the [want?] of [time?] - they have not heard from me. I have more than twenty five letters that shall remain unanswered - but I intend to [notice?] them all some time. For the last two years I have enjoyed what I call comfortable health - with the exception of last winter - it was a trying season for me - for cold always effects me badly. I have had a great deal to do in that time and I have got along with it [first?] [rate?]. A year ago last summer we [built?] a large [set?] of buildings and [boarded?] our help, since then we have had [boarders?] the most of the [time?] now our family is the smallest it has been since I returned home which • is fine - and as I have been washer-woman - cook - chamber-maid and seamstress you may readily suppose that I have had to be quite busy. My health is not perfect and perhaps never will be - I have to do a little something in the way of doctrine once in a while to keep the [ark?] a mooving - but I am not troubled with dispepsia nor that awful stomach that I used to be. I often think of the many and dear friends that I found in [Saratoga?] - and the [cries.] and