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I am very much obliged to you for the News about Milo. I have considered you all very negligent on that respect, and perhaps have wrote to you to that effect. Now Lucy has got back to Milo, I shall expect to hear from her, "all the particulars" how it seems to her after her absence etc. N.B. I wondered you did not stay longer at Hampden, get fairly rested before venturing back to that Milo again. Perhaps you will be wiser next time you get there. Lucy I guess those shirts are just the thing, though I not get them washed yet so as to try them wear them I wonder if Spruce Gum isn't good for the Jaunders. Joseph A.S. worked with me till I came down here. Very possible he may come dob here now some. ? Holton is laid up. I hear today Rufus is better, setting up; and which encourages me much, Miss Harriet Snow of Bernardston, his Ladye Love, is there to take care of him. It will do him good 'like a Medicine' doubtless.

  Joseph & Jane call the Babe - fact I hardly know-- Susan, I guess, or Susan Jane. I call it "little one." It is fat as two pigs & healthy as three or four.
 What did that Mr. Ricker Man give for Crockett lot? Is it a Ricker that used to live over Pleasant River, or a "New Man"?
Do Write Write Now you & Lucy are both at Milo you can afford to write as Lucy at least promised as often as I would. Aff. I.S.M.

Your letter directed I.S.M. "Engineer" Perhaps that is my title, but I share it with another. The "Engine Man" whoever has the care of a Steam Engine is always perhaps properly called "Engineer" His business is quite different from ours thought we may set him to work. Ours is "Civil Engineering" I am Civ. Eng. or Engineer