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Saratoga, Dec. 2, 1858 Dear Sister Sarah &c:

    Yours was received yesterday about noon, how welcome it was your heart can better tell than my pen. Was your satchel a great inconvenience to you? or did you find someone of the genus homo to carry it from one car to the other? We feared you would regret that it was not checked. Hope you are getting over your weariness and that your journey did not hurt you any. What did mother say of my leaving you to go home alone 

    Mrs. Thomas, you know, does not take treatment now. She is not so well. I fear she will lose what she has gained. Saturday, I think it was, she came in my room shaking violently. I never before saw any one so bad. It did not last a great while but she has not been so well since. She seems more unhappy than she used to, you know how she is situated and now her husband is at the farm. She said yesterday she wished she had a home. She is not contented here and she could not be satisfied there. Be sure and remember her when you write for a little word of remembrance does her a great deal of good. Mrs. Smith has just been in to ask me if I will remain in the sitting room a little while as the girls work to wash my windows. So good by love to all Jennie