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You got home safe and well. A very important item in the news. You like better than you expected, and are happy in your new western home. I hope each letter will confirm this important truth. Abby, my dear sister as long as you, in your new home, are happy, I shall never feel sad about you. I hope and trust you and your husband will forever enjoy each other's society most dearly. And be as happy, and happier, it may be, than we too in our fancy representations, have ever imagined. Do you remember our many long chats, and illustrations of a happy home? Make your own home if you can the realization of the fancy picture. Tell me if it is, Now for news from home. All well. It is very much pleasanter here, now, than when you left. Twas too bad we could'nt get the garden arranged before you went away! It looks sweet pretty now. I've worked beyond all account "out there! I've hoed and weeded, planted and transcplanted and now - (There our Kate, made me do that drawing on page she's been perched upon my shoulder most all the time I've been writing, undoubtedly purred a long message to you how mother frightened her out of the house, for catching a robin written down left hand side of page I've been putting some new metallis springs in my ?alloon. We did'nt like cord and have all three of us got metallis springs. Don't tell brother K. I've been drawing our ancestrall coat of arms and am going to color it with crayons. We hear from Charles regularly - I'm going to send him your letter tomorrow