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it is the 15 of April and no one has planted corn here yet we have seven acres of oats sowed I have had no news of late from Indianna or Ohio Mr Frosts have lost their youngest child little Seth W he died last satturday morning three corpses went out of that house in a year and few days Mary Jane died on the seventh of March 63 and Seth the ninth of March 64 Wm H drinks and carouses round worse than ever I believe they are still at the old place has not bought old Wm H has bought a pinery in Wisconsin and is having lumber got out he expects to realize something like forty thousand dollars this season and if he has good luck he has promised Rebecca a handsome farm if she would wait and not buy