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took much time is on the hands- you can tell better than I if it be so. Your last letter was received a day or two before I commenced this If I had a little more time at command I would gladly answer the things in it but must wait till another time & now only scribble off what I want to say. Eliab spent an evening with Hattie. I am very glad it was a great gratification is her & to us for he could tell us of her- he appeared to be much pleased with her. no doubt she was much disappointed not to see Wallace & Irving too- She has been quite ill since thanksgiving she went to Mrs Nelson's father's to visit two or three days, she was feasted & taken about Springfield to see all the lions, till she was excited & her stomach overloaded so that on her return to school & duties & boarding house fare, she was not only physically worn out & disordered but considerably homesick too; - wrote us some quite soleful letters but we hope she is better now. she wrote us that she had nosebleeds profusely and palpitations of the heart on coming up stairs (she foolishly told the teacher she was able to room in the fourth story) so her father wrote to the head teacher