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Bangor Nov. 8th 1842 Dear brother Isaac Having a favorable opportunity to send to you I will improve it by writing a few lines. If I had a little more time at command, I would use my sisterly prorogative in filling up this sheet with all sorts of good advice and grave reflections but you will escape much infliction of that sort this time, as I shall only have the time between schools to scratch down a few words to send tomorrow by the delegate to Mr. Parker's installation. Is it not strange that they should settle so strong an abolitionist after finding so much fault on that account with Mr. Wells? I am glad Mr. P. is going there, hope he will be the means of doing much good there. Charles was down last Thurs. brought me letters from mother and Lucy the first news I had heard from home since I left, he brought the news of the fire at the mills: that is quite a blow to its infant prosperity from which it will probably take it a long time to recover. I suppose you know more about home than I do, and hear oftener so I can tell you no news other neither they write much. If Mr. Sandford the bearer of this (he boards where I do, is a member of Mr. P's church and of the young men's Bible class, and one of the best fellows in the world -- I say if he calls and hands you this, I wish you would be peculiarly civil, sociable, and polite to him and by all means write to me by him all of you, I want very much to know your present situation, prospects about schools &c. In regard to your going to College, I think it a subject to be weighed and prayed over, that if entered upon, it may be with right motives. Good talents, a love for study, and ample means to defray expenses, furnish I should think, sufficient inducements for any young man in good health, to engage in a course of study: but, when in addition to the unceasing labor of acquiring knowledge, a constant struggle must be

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