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severely joked about the slovenly appearance of the Academy. Curtains been up six years without washing etc. Floors and benches horrible dirty Olive said. Mr. Gillam trained Mr. T. well - told him the coat fitted & he must wear it. Made the poor little man blush. Jerusha Holmes is at Charleston again at school. Rumor says her engagement with Mr. T. is broken off. He is going to keep house this winter. His sister for housekeeper. You inquire which Vol. of Upham I like best - 'Tis all so good I can hardly tell. Sensibilities is a little the most interesting - or easy to understand -perhaps. Wayland I am going to read next. Samuel wants to read it too. Shall I lend it? I want he should read Upham. We have "Washington and his generals" here now. Charles reading it. I peeped into "Butler" a bit the other day, but my imagination, aided by your calling it hard reading, made it look quite notunderstandable to me. Rather think I shall not try it. Your "Bigelow" was a great help to me. How much easier & better than Mrs. Lincoln. Don't know what we should all do if it was'nt for your books. Hartwell has "Napoleon and his Marshalls." Shall I borrow it? Is it worth reading, or is it all about battles - the same thing over and over? When you write again, I wish you would tell me about the "Minataur of Ignorance" if you think of it. I have it mingled in my mind with another old story I believe. I conclude "Monochromatic" drawing is the same as shading with crayons. Is it not? How great a loss would the "eye teeth of the Vt. and Mass. R.R.Co." be? I don't believe it would trouble me so much as not to have you come home next spring, i.e. unless it would injure you. You ask why I don't tell you more about Lizzie Quimby. I told you every word I know, and some of my thoughts besides I believe. You are hereby credited with much long- sightedness in the matter, though I verily believe that the minds - or perhaps more probably hearts - of both parties were somewhat tender on a certain subject at one time. Eliab says that he thought of it and it might have been so, but she being older, he concluded on the whole, it was not best. Moses Greenleaf, the less, was homesick, had a lame leg, was too small to answer the purpose, so Jos. sent him home. He [left-hand side] Jan. 2nd Year is? Mother, Charles and I went to the mills in the wagon to hear Mr. Sewall. No meeting - House locked up. Plod home in the mud and rain.