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would seem to imply. There is danger I am afraid that her continued debility & predisposition to weak lungs will throw her into consumption . She will need to be very careful,not to feel injuriously, the transition from the enervating, relaxing climate of southern Illinois, to the bracing breezes of the New Hampshire hills. I have had quite a house full of company the past week. Emily Colman & her sister are here spending a week or two or three by invitation . they were alone in their house this winter their parents have gone for the winter to Clintonville N. Y. where he is preaching so the girls could leave as well as not to make some visits; we find it pleasant to have them here, as well as profitable to the children; they are pious girls, highly educated & refined sincere & loving. you would like them much. they have an excellent mother ( the doctor's standard. their father is an old college friend of Dr. Pomroy. Dr. Converse (brother of the former wife) has been here a week, gone or more to Boston to buy goods; has left his little daughter 13 years old, to stay till he returns. He is from Princeton Illinois, quite wealthy, an excellent man. we visited him last fall. Besides those, it happened that Mr. & Mrs. Hopkins came here to stay a few days when