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Miss E. A. Rich Bangor June 24th /47

June 26th 1847 Bruns Coll.

Dear brother Isaac Lucy wrote her letter swiftly some days since and we intended to send it forth to you early last week but it has been delayed, waiting for me to do my part as for me, the ofs. repealed_ 'have been unusually busy the past week' tells the story. We have had much rainy weather here lately and nature is in her loveliest attire we have however taken no walks since our interesting and romantic excursion down the banks of the Kenduskeag: except that I took a walk to the Seminary a day or two since with Lizzie Doe & a young belle from Frankfurt: Have you ever visited the 'Institution' and explored its wonders? We went into the library which is really quite a room, at least to my eye, with quite a cabinet of curiosities specimens of heathen ingenuity, idols, or enough to fill one small room. Lucy was not smart enough to go that day, which was a pity, for we could not put it off: her health is certainly improving the effect I think in part of Dr. McRuen's medicine which she ought to have taken long ago. I have just read Lucy's epistle and she seems to have said all there is to tell you:- her 'Sam's book' that he brought for her to read the very day it got to town is very engaging. Truly I never before so forcibly felt the superiority of those noble souls and lofty intellects lodged in iron frames, who accomplished so much in the revolutionary struggle; & against such molds?; it seems to me the proportion of such men is small now. Probably the circumstances of the times in which they lived helped to make them what they were. Another thought struck me,- the resolution shown by the soldiers in enduring such privations, and extraordinary sufferings- for months without any covering but tufts of moss, and repeatedly fighting in this condition.