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8 settle in Boston or New York or New Jersey or some far Eastern city and then we would be scattered to the four winds
surely enough. Shall we never meet-at a given point? This will reach you about Christmas and I warmly wish you the compliments
of the season Wishing to hear from you both again era long I remain as ever, Lovingly your, Sister Mary. Many thanks for
the little sprays you sent to me. 01090 5 from each other for you know what sort of times Christmas brings the far North
John might laugh at calling this far North He has been so much farther North but it is far North to us and shows us no blossoms
but a few little petted buds and blooms that one frosty breath from the open door might destroy almost immediately My plants
are looking very nicely although some of the more tender ones have been touched with frost. We are having a very pleasant
winter