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New Hampton Jan. 1st 1855

Dear Sister Jane,

    A happy New Year to you and all our loved family and obliged for your last welcome letter and its Christmas greeting.  Our little ones are quite interested this year in saying their merry christmas and happy new year.  They have not understood it so well before.  They hung up their stockings Christmas and they say pa and ma are their Santa Claus.  The young ladies of the Seminary here had a Christmas tree an a large company present.  The articles were all numbered and the tickets bought.  The avails to go to increase their library.  No one knew what they were to get, and it made a good deal of amusement.  They

along the side I enclose this a letter to Mary Smith. Please forward it to her. Also John's if he is not there.