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? these two years, it had been put off, far too long. I found I could get Mr. Keyes at it. It would not do to defer it. So I made up my mind to stay, and have it out at any rate, and you would get along somehow at home. I hope now to get through, and get home in the course of the week, but make no promises, and you need not expect me till you see me arrive. But I do want to hear from you all; And wonder I did not last week. I did not have to read a sermon this forenoon there was a minister there to preach, and is to be again this Evening. But the Attendance is small. some are gone to the war, and some are sick. I told you of Capt. G. C. Ward brought home killed at Corinth dead a week or two since. Mrs. Dr. Wall & Mrs. Dea Ben Sprague are sick, and so is Mr. Merchant Hatch, the S.S. Superintendent, which institution languishes for his lack. Do you remember Young Ross, (not Ellen Wall's Ross, they live now down at Villa Ridge or South Pass) but the one who was the Clerk for Milford Hinkley, son of old Man Ross out on the Prairie near old Clarks'. His young wife died in Child bed a few days ago. Several deaths thus about here within a few weeks. Mrs Abram Mitchell about to be confined is reported very anxious and nervous on that score. Trade revives here now. Prices high. Geo. & Ed. Smith, like the other Traders, of whom they stand at the head, getting rich. Benj. Guitteau & Brad. Skinner distinguishing themselves in the Ill. C. Cavalry, Also 4 sons of Old Clark in the same Company. The "Things" you remember -are Spiritualists, Mrs Damon Thing a Medium.

                                                                 Well Love &c.
                                                                                      Isaac

Mrs. I.S. Metcalf Elyria Ohio I.S. Metcalf Elyria Ohio