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never again while mother is so unwell - perhaps never - We are all as usual well - some colds occasionally. I hope you and yours (and mine) are well also - Be very careful do, and not be sick if you can help it - I'm practicing darling Seraphine - now what leisure I have when mother is comfortable - I've been learning - "The Family Bible" "Start of the Evening, or Twilight Star" "Grand March in Norma" and a little wasy "Quick Step" and "Waltz" - Don't think from This report however that I play readily - I play but slowly and poorly as yet - However I keep trying - And I must tell you that we have had a meeting at our church two Sabbaths. Delightful it was too - We are making an effort this spring to open the church - again, and in reference to that object in view - The Secretary of page torn sent first Rev. John Sargent of Boston and second Rev. Joseph Angier of Milton - Both most capital preachers - Quite stars for the ministerial page torn, by reputation high - They both were our guests and an intellectual treat and social pleasure They afforded us. They were both personally acquainted with Beecher Huntington and Dewey - Had made exchanges with Dr Bellows Stan King - Thedore Parker - Dr Samuel May whose pulpit Rev. Joseph Augier supplied while the former was on a tour to unclear Who will come next we dont know - The above were not candidates, only came for one Sabbath - We hope some good minister will come and settle with us - But dont know who - Merry Wood is to be married this week - Quite a sudden affair they say - She marries a widower with children. Unfavorably you know I never quite reconciled such things - You asked "what Mrs. J was going to be " - Now thats quite beyond my knowledge Abby - Probably Mrs. Nobody if any. Thank you for your good wishes in that respect But if you are going to make me "Mrs" you'll have to find The "Mrs." and play the agreeable - You know I'm such a matter of fact creature that I never had the faculty to attract of if I did - I was sure to say something The next minute to turn their noses the other way immediately - So you see There's no use) sis Mary