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2 waited for this announcement and will hope to see it realized Have just had a letter from Hamilton, your father writes
that he is well and very happy so we are quite satisfied Margt. has just called and is feeling better than she often does.
I expect you know that John R is going to Nebraska about May the rest of our families are all well as usual. Portage still
continues to grow quite a number of houses are to be built this coming summer, and although it is a small place, yet when
you come home you will see it has improved considerably Gardening has already commen- -ced here and Joanna is quite 3
interested in the business of planting flowers and seeds her health slowly but surely improves It is four years this month
since she came home from the Normal School so very sick she has suffered a great deal but we have much to be thankful for
blessings and mercies have followed us all the days of our life I often think how I am surrounded with blessings and comforts
that many are denied of - - I expect you will again be soon starting out on your summers travels into those dangerous paths
that are of so much interest to you. I hope you will be