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I was quite Anxious to hear of your journey, and safe arrival at Dunbarton; and hoped I would get a letter from there on Saturday but it did not come. I got however a letter from Mother at Milo, and one from Eliab at Bangor of 17th inst. telling that you had started from there. You ask where is Dr. Wall going. I do not know yet. I am glad you like Eliab and all the Maine folks: write me all about them all, - what did you think of them. Glad you bought some books for them: why not more? Who is Mrs. Isaac Hatch who called to see you. I am sure I do not know. All the letters from Milo are full of Disappointments because Charles does not come home this summer. Albina, I judge is entirely unreconciled, hardly able to submit to it at all. Mother proposes to go to Bangor with Dr. DeWitt & Wife when they return from Milo; and perhaps go on to Ohio with them. If so I suppose she would call at Dunbarton & see you. Her only hesitation seems to be about leaving Maria this Summer. I do not know but she ought to stay on that account. But I do want her to go to Ohio; as well as to Dunbarton. Mother seems most troubled about not having more chance to see, and get acquainted with Little Mayo. They tell a great story from Milo, of the Little Charley's labors in getting up a Liberty Pole on the Fourth of July. Did I tell you in my last letter of Samuel Conant's leaving here. He got letters a week since that his wife was sick; and started right away Sunday non. Got to St. Louis we hear on Tuesday Morning and left there Tuesday evening for Alton, La Salle, Chicago. same route we went. Very like get home Saturday yesterday, if he had good luck, & could stand it to keep right on. It seems entirely healthy in this region now, though I most wondered it, seeing all the children with their mouths full of the miserable dried up half grown green fruit. I had written you of the Big Muddy rich folks. K.T. Aspem, the German foreman soon got well, went up to Centralia, and is very well there. Mr. Noel had a regular Billious Fever, and got salivated beside; so he get well very slow; and