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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
�write 2 o clock stands at 94. It ranges from 90 to 98 about 8 hours of the day. This is so every day. The evenings are generally cool - and it is very pleasant here then - moonlight nights. I presume you have tolerably hot weather in Maine and are in the midst of haying. Tell Ed C____ that I would like to have him out here. I do not care much to be at home to help him hay. I am inclined to think that I prefer my present mode of life to sweating all day in the hay field. _____________ over to Daniel's and turning grindstone does not present any very brilliant attractions to my inclination