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Half past 11. Friday Oct. 15. /52. A cold N. E. Rain storm. Chs. Haskell & wife have just started for the Depot, - Mary as tranquil, notwithstanding the inclemancy of the weather, as she would be reclining beneath the shade, on a flower bank, in a pleasant summer day. I never saw her otherwise. Do you get all my sheets? My correspondence is a diary; & if you do not receive an unbroken journal of home, - if a day is missing, then some of my letters miscarry [underlined]. I don't mean I send [underlined] them every day -- but write [underlined] every day, & send when my sheets are full. If you tuck them together, in order as rec'd, you will have quite a volume, which may be interesting to you, or to your posterity, many you knew: when you or your children shall be the richest & most respectable merchants in Boston it will amuse you to turn back to this time [underlined], & see with what prospects, & with what feelings, you commenced your career. You have left here your first journal [underlined] which you began when you was 7 years old. I enjoy looking over that [underlined] very much. You must keep it as long as you live. Isaac Thompson & Dana Bradbury have been up to Isaac's father's to a great apple paring Bee. So Persis says. What an event!