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Centre Belpre, O. Feb 25, 1855

My dear Brother, It has been sometime since I wrote you and some time since you wrote to me, too, I guess. But how do you do? you have not gone to Nebraska yet, have you? I expected to have seen you home before this, why have you not come? Received a letter from Areli last evening, and her finger has got almost well, well enough to sew with. Sister Mary caught cold when she came down here and now has the Rheumatism in her back. The rest of us are all well. A Mrs. Carey in Marietta had a little boy drowned last week, he was just coming home from school; and stopped to slide on the ice down by one of the bridges and broke in, they did not find him till the next morning. His mother feels very badly about it. I hope it will be a warning to the other boys, for they are all so careless. "There was a 'Donation Party' at Mr. Barrows' last week. I have heard nothing about it yet. One week more of school, and then want I be lonesome? I expect I shall go to the "Union School" in the Spring. but don't know, Father's health is good, Mother's tolerably. I am very well, have a lame wrist, caused by washing Saturday. Father was sent for to appear at court next Tuesday, but will not go. they want him as a witness in the Sister C's and Mr Rolston's case, but