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Sunday P.M. 1 Sept. It has rained like a shower all day. No meeting, here, in consequence. Grandmo-ther Long is with us. If it storms in Boston as it does, here, you + John will have a lonesome time. My other sheet [?] being a commentary on the subject of your letter, I will try, in this, to inform you of matters + things that have oc-curred, + are occurring, since I wrote you. Let me first just remark,- I am pleased with your good advice to John. Such admonition, from you, under circumstances rendering it evident that you feel what you say, will do him good. The High School stands fair. Ms. E. Atwood [?] tried very hard to persuade Asa to attend: but did not succeed. Asa is ashamed to attend a school. He has so much neglected his opportunities, + is so sold, + so backward he has not courage to do it. What a pity! Asa is not usually capable of doing something; but I am afraid he will be rather late about it. And there is talk that he "has got a gall" [phrase underlined], + is thinking about being married. He had better go to Oregon. Poor boy! You wish me to tell you all the little things that happen here. Did you know Capt. Parris was in Co. [?] with Ensign Caswell in the Beer + candy line? It was so; + they have had a quarrel which will probably end in dissolution of this copartnership. I hope Boston folks are well braced; for I can't tell how much this unexpected event may shake the commercial world. Very early yesterday morning, in the storm, a boy brought round [?] that