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to come when you are wanted, won't you? I should think you would have wanted your Botanical books this fall, have'nt you? You regret that you did not get information in Drawing last summer. Possibly it might have been some assistance to you, but I conclude our Drawing is of a very kind from yours, and done by different rules, or rather no rules at all compared with yours. I would suppose it would be much easier getting your lines etc. exact by the use of instruments then by mere skill as we do, though I am pretty certain you would not so soon acquire a correct eye. I am very glad if you anticipate a "easy time" this winter. I had supposed it would be very different.

  I mentioned that Eliab was home a while ago, but did not tell you that he came home sick. He was really quite unwell - pain in the side, very yellow skin and eyes and other symptoms of liver complaint. We feared he would be sick as I was, but he dosed with cherry bark etc. took a bottle of it back with him, and is now better than for some time past. We joked him about Lizzie Quimby's marrying Fellows and going off, having an effect on his health and spirits! I suspect, and he intimated, that there will be the considerable effort and maneuvering by the Browns in May Marston's behalf. Guess E. does'nt like her very much. Joseph writes that he has now the best boarding place he has had since he went to Bangor. Eliab says there is a pretty girl there - a kind of "blue stocking." Spose 'twill have any effect upon Jos. By the way, tell me all about Lucy Williams and her smart bean?. I have an idea from all I have heard of her that she is very handsome, very witty, very accomplished etc. etc. As for Cousin Maria I suppose her to be a great good-natured, common sense, strong minded girl, very much like Uncle Joseph. Aunt and cousin Hannah I did very much dislike, and all I hear confirmed my former feeling. The rest I know nothing at all about only that Aunt Conant is very homely and very clever, and that Aunt Esther don't know how to manage children. I have a great desire to go there and see and know something about the folks, but don't expect I ever shall. I rec'd a very good letter from Mary