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Vacation is passing rapidly and pleasantly. only think six more weeks and we enter a new field of duty. new acquaintances to be made - I do not anticipate it. I do not think I am the right one to change friends so often - My Zanesville friends are as dear to me today as they were the day I left them - And I know it will be so of my Elyria friends - Mrs Metcalf not the least. And is she willing with all her cares to write occasionally to me - Not that there is any danger of my forgetting her - But 'twould be pleasant? to have that proof. One of the most precious boons God has given us - of her remembrance I offer no inducements as a correspondent There are some things I can do - others I cannot among them - write interesting letters. So that any request is purely from selfish motives - Anything come?ed? with E. will be interesting even if you do not have? the Metcalf family - I'd like to see every one of them - from the "garde man of the house" to the little new one. A good wish