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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
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This forenoon it is raining hard. I have been cutting extracts from papers to put in my "Patent Scrap book". Am going to read a little this forenoon and write. Many letters yet remain unanswered and I must attend to them at once. I don't think it could very well have been helped. Naturally I take great delight in correspondence. The fact is I have been so situated that letter writing during the past fortnight has been a thing almost wholly impracticable. Charles' presence has taken up my attention continually. And my quaters and companions are not such as I would select if left to my own choice.
Still these are small things to murmur against comparitively, and I will drive the harder.