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Mamma has decided to reject the Will and accept her dower; in accordance with a law (which though in existence for twenty years has never been used and had been entirely forgotten, and of which Papa was entirely ignorant,) she will probably have a life interest in one third of the real estate and uncontrolled possession of one third of the personal estate, which in our case amounts to over a million. The affair is to be refered to the supreme court in September. Sister does not like it at all, for she thinks it will not be doing as Papa would have wished for he did not know anything about the law, and if he had he would have made his will differently; his main idea and object was to keep the property so as it would go down undivided to his grand children, and if Mama should choose to will away to somebody else the three or four hundred thousand dollars of which she will get possession, why then poor Papa's money for which he toiled so hard will be disposed of in a different way from that which he intended and it seems a sacrilige even to think of it. If Papa had only left us five hundred a year we would never have thought of saying a word, and when Mamma had ten thousand a year it does not seem as if she would have said or done anything. However she does not consider $10,000 sufficient for her support and so rejects the Will.