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last page 5 be absent a month. Mr. Pomroy will not probably be at home until Sept., the great world's convention at London is deferred till Aug and he will want to stop to attend that, and his people express an willingness that he should. He has quite a severe sickness at Athens, was confined to his bet twenty days, he was in the the family of Fr Thing Missionary there. He has visited Smyrna and his last letter was dated Beyroot; from there, he was going in a party of four, to visit Jerusalem and the chief places of interest in Palestine: they were to take a tent with them with cooking utensils, &c., with two Arab servants. He expects to return over the Alps, through Germany, and get back to Eng. in June or July. -- I want you should write home and here too, just when you shall be at Bangor, as I suppose Charles will be down, and I intend to dismiss my school for a week, though it will come in the midst of a quarter, -- and go up at the same time. I suppose you will stay a fortnight but I shall have to return in a week, and when I come back one or both the boys can go p, which arrangement would make a saving in stage fare: Lucy ought to have made them consent to wait till 1st June, then she would be at home all the time instead of merely coming for a few days: I hope it will be so that we can all meet there then, for perhaps we may never be able to again, in like circumstances. As to your prospects, I think you have every reason to look on the bright side, and trust Providence that your way will be made clear: I fear you do not realize the sacred duty, as well as importance of a prudent care of health. I wish you would write to me, whenever you can conveniently, whether I do or not, we all want to hear from you often and particularly. When you have time I wish you would give me [right side] your opinion upon Capital punishment, and also upon the propriety of withdrawing contributions from the American board, in favour of the new Union board. Affctly E.A.