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  Whitestown Sun. Nov. 26? /50. 

Dearest Sarah,

  My heart is with you now, and I long to be by your side. Is it true that you have been so sick and I heard nothing about it except as it happened down to Utica last Saturday and saw Robert's letter. I have been most sick this week with pain in my teeth, or I should have written before. (I suppose Robert told you that I had been to the dentist's and had my teeth filled &c). Dear Sarah, how I long to be at home, especially now as you are sick and Ma must be worn out. But a few days more and I shall be there. 
  Our school closes next Tuesday and large number of the gentlemen have left already, those who design to teach in the winter. Miss Sexton, my roommate, left Friday. My room looks completely empty and desolate now. I suppose she is at home now, happy as a bird. We have had a very pleasant time indeed. For the last five weeks our meetings have been unusually full and interesting. Several of our schoolmates have sought the Savior and found him precious. Miss Fenton or Carrie, as I most always call her, was one of the happy number, also Harriet Ennis, who read the paper with me. They are both sweet girls, more so now than ever before. One young man, a Polander who has been in this country but two years. He says he thinks it was the finger of God that directed him to this land in order that he might become a christian and there lead his countrymen to Christ. It is but a little over a week since his conversion and his thoughts immediately turned to the

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