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5 as if I would like to spend a couple of months this summer with you in New England & I would do so if I could afford it. I think it would do us both good to spend say July & August there, don't you. I suppose how-ever it would not do to let our things lay in the house over summer for if we do the moth & mice will ruin them I fear & then I ought to be at the farm to look after our share of the grain at harvest time so I suppose I must give up the idea. If we could arrange so that our things would not be in danger from moth or mice & I could arrange about my grain perhaps it would be well to spend July & August there & yet I have been without home so long that I long for home with wife & children more than for any thing else.

Saturday evening I have just returned from a pleasant call upon Doct. Higday. I spent a very agreeable evening with him. I thought however I must say a few words more to you before retiring so I have stopped into my office to write to you. Lydia has not answered my letter inviting her to return west with you. If she would enjoy doing so I should be very glad to have her, but itis not best to urge her for she may not like & then we should all feel badly about it. Tell her just how every thing is as near as you can