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of the family. I wrote home for them some time ago, do hope I shal get them soon for I am so anxious to see the home faces especialy the Children I can hardly realise that you have been haveing such cold weather there this winter for it has been so mild here, not more that a half dozen nights in all when ice has formed. And yet it is considered the most severe winter that has been experianced for years There is a great cry at present that all the Orange trees are killed. Presume it is some thing like the Peaches being killed every winter at home. A great cry and a good crop. At present the weather here is almost uncomfortably warm, at the present