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I wish I could spend some quiet days with mother and Lucy there, do'nt you ? Take the question in both ways if you please for I truly wish we both could be thus favored. I have heard nothing from Almeda or the folks at Milo for some time.

 I fear we do'nt any of us think enough of her sorrows and hardships, and feel for her-- I cannot bear the thought that she should have any reason to think, that her brothers and sisters esteem her less because she is poor, than if she were, for instance, situated in Boston with all the luxuries and appliances of wealth around her, herself and children taking no mean place in no mean circle in Society- a fate and fortune which would have been predicted much sooner of her than of Caroline Morse in the promise of the youth of each, doubtless in other circumstance, fostering and favourable, our sister Almeda would command admiration and respect and be a relation to feel proud of, in while she is in fact more worthy in her now chastened spirit, rendered humble and affectionate by affliction, she deserves more our deep sympathy than if she had not been so cut off from all earthly hopes and thrown for affection and succor wholly upon her own relatives.  I think she now values highly, (who does not?) the love of her kindred and would feel such manifestation from you to be a true solace and comfort as well as a great pleasure- have you written her lately? and her children, that are thrown on us as a family- by nature