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 Last week I went with father to Concord. I enjoyed the ride and the glorious Autumnal scenery very much. It seemed to me 'tho trees had never before assumed colors so lifelike so brilliant and lustrous. No wonder the poor foreigners thought America had painted trees. The leaves already begin to fall, and while I write, they drop, one by one, from the maple trees by the door. Father says he does not love to think summer is gone - he likes the warm weather. Does it seems any like New England where you are at Mr. Root's? Or, have they become thoroughly westernized by this time? Does he have a considerable audience to listen to his Sabbath Service? I was much interested in the story of your Sabbath experience. I have never attended a Class meeting - but from what I have known about them I have formed a very favorable opinion.  Mother has attended them, and has often said she thought a similar service would be of great benefit to any people.
 Very glad you found so good and kind a friend in Dr. Lucas and hope his care and prescriptions have made you much better ere this. I suppose it will be some time before you will be fully well and strong again, even if you recover as rapidly as could be expected. It seems as if I could hardly wait for your next letter, to tell me how you are. I believe I mentioned in the last letter, that I should be glad to hear once in two weeks. Perhaps you will think this altogether too great a demand on your time. If so, of course I would be unwilling to have it so, - but a very short letter will do a very great deal of good. I am writing in father's study now, and I do wish you could hear the music. It is a delightful day; warm as summer, and the buzzing fly, the chirping cricket & the "hum-drum grasshopper" are performing each their part, and a merry little bird perched on the topmost bough of a maple tree, plays an interlude occasionally. But I must stop, or the mail will be gone. But one thing I had almost forgotten. Father wished me to ask whether, if you decide to remain West, Minnesota would not be as promising a field of labor? I suppose it is far healthier- perhaps even a better climate than New England. I believe father thinks it, perfection. I did not like to ask, because I did not love to think of your being a