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2 -attending the Institute that is being held here Sarah was very kind indeed and did every thing that lay in her power
to do, to make my visit with her pleasant Sarah and I went up to the garret and saw a good many of your things that was put
into her care when we left the farm Perhaps you know that your father has gone back to Hamilton, he staid six weeks at Portage
and three weeks at Phillips and then told Joanna to pack his truck for he was going and he wrote to me that he felt very much
better since he got back but his lameness is permanent being occasioned by a fall on the sidewalk Anna wrote to her father
that she did not think that she would like to live in Canada but if she was 3 needed for a time she would be willing to
go What a very severe winter we have had only think of snow drifts in Portage streets ten and twelve feet high I know that
you are so accustomed to see such piles of snow and ice, that you will not think we have seen much but it was thought to be
something immense here David is always kind and ready to do all he can to assist me with all my affairs he has been more closely
confined than ever this winter to the store as Mr Parry was elected a member of the Assembly at Madison, and has been gone
about twelve weeks he has now got home and I wish that David could have a vacation now, he is looking so very thin 00983