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New Hampton, Oct. 21, 1867 Dear Friends at Home, I have received another letter from Mr. Butler, dated Rosa, Oct. 4 & 5 and as I know you will be interested in all he writes about his visit to our friends in Wales I will copy what he says about that. Writing to us he says, "You will like to get a letter from Rosa, ma's birthplace, also grandma Everett's. It is a large three story stone house, with several barns, and outbuildings, garden, fields and pastures enclosed with pretty green hedges. Mr. Roberts has a good farm under excellent cultivation, but has to pay about $1,000 a year rent, & $100 a year taxes. His eldest daughter is married and lives 1 1/2 miles from here. They have a little boy, Johny, a year old. The younger daughter is soon to be

in margin: us & shall hope to write soon again I must close now With much love to all. Hope Mary will have a good time in New York. Tell her to write to us. I shall write to Cynthia soon in answer to her kind letter. Good By, Elisabeth