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Bangor Dec 1852

Lucy and I want very much to see you to tell you in the most sacred confidence a little bit of teaser known only to us two and in which we want a little help from you. Lucy and I have begun to make the attempt to write a book whether it progress, get finished and published is another question, therefore and for the reasons it is not to be mentioned to a single person as yet, and we mention to you in confidence of your secrecy. We mean it shall be a long story yet a true one a narrative carried on in the first person simple and unvarnished. We have chosen a subject that in respect is tame and place can be most easily disguised and also for affording most event of interest if we can have just enough to narrate them on, a simple account of your life from your childhood to the present time under wholly fictitious names. We have got as far as your return from Aunt Humphrey's giving some account of the place and circumstances of the family but have now got to a stand still because we know so little about it. Will you please write and send back by Sam'l sealed (for he and Eliab must know nothing of it) as much as you can have time to write of what you remember about the saying and doings of grandmother Stevens and Grandfather too when you were a little girl also of your brothers and sisters: scribbles and incidents of