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My Anna went to Superior two weeks ago and we hoped would be frozen out and come home at Thanksgiving. She however, finds
that her brothers have provided a new house with a furnace. We have hence no more hope of her.- But my Agnes and I are all
the more counterparts and help-meets. My letter reached Miss Catharine Merrill and has already brought me a reply She speaks
of her brother as now on his way home. So he must be ousted from his consulship. You know just before he started for India
he lost much by fire. How often the best have the worst lot - But what is worst? College Tom - a quaker job in the lovelist?
Rhode Island 1700-1800 by his grandson's granddaughter , is a book I would be sorry not to have read. In the 24 years since
our illegible above the Nevada fall what fugacious years we have passed. What a joy as I wear out is faith in a life beyond
life - the lost on earth restored in heaven - where we shall know god better and can serve him more nobly than belongs to
the lot of earth. Grace enwheel us round James D. Butler. 01742