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Mt. Hol. Fem. Sem. June 18, 1850. Dear Sisters: To you, I direct my thoughts and hope I shall receive a quick response. It is sad to be ill even when cheered and blessed by the sweet smiles of our parents, but there is a bitterness mingled with it when far sepperated from them. I long to see you all, but none so much as them. There is a place, I think, in every heart which none but a kind father and mother can fill. We cannot expect, my sisters, to be always with them, duty will sometime call us from their side. O, then, seek to know and perform their every wish and you will love to review those happy moments, how often have I wished, since coming here, that I had been more dutiful. Education cannot be acquired without some sacrifice, and it is well worthy of any we can offer, when then, this object is being advanced, we should never complain - As I lay this morn sighing that I could not persue my studies, I thought of Sarah, and could but say, I wish I was a tiny bird, That sweetly sings its praise, And not one note is ever heard Of discontent to raise.