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unless W.H. comes over here before I get ready to go.

I suppose sis received the letter I wrote to her I shall expect to hear from some of you soon now. I shall want to know what you are doing, how you passed Christmas +c. I suppose you are all at home now. Do you and Mary go to school this winter? I suppose one of you is obliged to stay at home -

Have you ever heard anything from Upham since he went to California? What do you hear from Calaforinia now -- from Bates, Leyman, Francis, Charles + others? Is Westbry teaching school this winter. If so where does he teach? How do you get along with your piano? I suppose you can play fairly by this time. Did you get your music teacher last summer that you partly expected?

I would like to be at home Christmas and New years -- But I expect we will have great times here Christmas week they do nothing but frolic then. There will enough Whisky drank in town to float a ship. We are having a good many parties now -- conversation parties. We have no dancing. Most of the young ladies in town belong to the church and will not dance -

If anyone inquires about me tell them to write to me and I will answer it --

Your bro

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