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33 ?84th New York Jan. 13, 1879 Dear Sisters & Brother, Did you get the letter I wrote Saturday? I have been looking all day for some line from you you, when I ought rather to have been writing to you. How do you get along especially in the morning? Does George get up and have the house warm before it is very late. Is he careful to do as he promised me about eating less butter? we have not yet dis[[ ]] of what I brought down but have been promised [at least] 24 cts by that lady to whom Mary expected to sell it-- but she said if we can do any better we are at liberty to do so. Mary has been out all day--she hopes to go with me this evening to see about the butter. She is quite busy and has hardly recovered from that fall. She promises to take me some day to see the place. I am very glad I came if only you get along well.

(written perpendicularly across the top) What did the people say when they found I had come! Mary and I both wrote to be unclear remembered to Mr. Hughes and the other friends. With love from your sisters J. and M.