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chestnuts last-night, and they went first-rate. The apples make me think of old times when they used to be piled up in the old double house, for among them I find a small speckled apple, which I used to pick out to eat in the fall. Tell Stephen that I received his letter and will try to write him one bye and bye. I went over to Boston Tuesday night to hear the news, and hear the speeches, etc, and there was a great crowd, especially about the paper Offices; and what may amuse the boys, while in the Journal Office, there being a perfect jam, a newsboy about as large as as Edwin or Stephen, wanted to get out but could not, so they lifted him up and passed him along over their heads into the street much to the amusement of all. There was lots of newsboys around, from as [crossed out word begin] large [crossed out word end] small as Edwin to as large as Seth making a perfect racket with their "Journal Extra; eleven o'clock edition!" or whatever else it might be, for they were printed every hour, all-night. How does the monument please you? Did Kinney say anything