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so many delights, and it seems as if I should like to make it my abiding place. Thursday 25th. I have just returned from school having supplied the place of a teacher who is absent. I have as yet obtained no permanent situation. I sometimes get discouraged and think there is no luck for me. I will now inform you why I have written. Last Sunday Mr. Gray informed me that you had received no intelligence from your brother Charles for some time, and that you were very much distressed on his account. I thought if the little information of which I am possessed, (although it is some time since I received it, and you may have heard from him since then,) would relieve your minds any, I would give it you. Last summer Aunt Sarah received letters from her husband, and in one of them he mentioned, that in his travels he had met with your brother at one of the mines. He was then well and seemed in very good spirits. I hope however that you will soon hear from him, and be relieved of your anxiety. Perhaps he may be like a young man whom I met last summer at my Aunt's. He had neglected writing so long, that he thought at last it would be of no use to write. His friends were very anxious about him, and came to the conclusion that he must be dead when suddenly to their great joy and surprise he made his appearance. I hope that it may prove this in your case. We did not know that Charles had gone to California, until he had been there sometime. We were informed of it by some of our friends from the country. When you write, (which I hope you will soon,) you must tell us all about him, and if he is doing well, and how long he intended to be gone. Tell us about the rest of your family, and about yourselves, and every thing that you think we shall take an interest in. I suppose now you would like to hear from your friends down this way. But allow me to say to you before I commence, that I feel more acquainted with you now, than when I commenced writing.