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2 Your father is still in Canada he writes often, saying he is well and comfortable. Anna is not teaching at present, she
went to Phillips and staid a month with Mary and Joanna returned home with her, having spent the summer there her? health
has improved very much indeed She was delighted with the pine woods and she thinks Mary has a very cozy happy home The girls
are spend- ing this week at Fox lake attending a Baptist convention Trusting that the everliving and ever loving Spirit will
continue to watch over you for good at all times Affectionately Mother 1 Dear John: - I have been wanting to write to
you for some time but feared a letter might not reach you, in fact I suspect one or two of mine have already been lost, however
here you are away off among the Indians and the ice feasting your eyes and soul on grandeur deleted: and while your ears and
toes are pinching with the cold. Well hurry up and get all you can into your note book and your mind and then come home and
give us some. Now? I m going to talk