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Sam's health is now quite good, & I hope he will
be troubled no more with the Fever & Ague. I think his
health has not been better since he came to this coun-
try that it is at the present time.

Besides the letter recieved [received] from by last mail
I recieved [received] long & highly interesting letters from Mrs.
Tucker and Mrs. Lizzie Lewis giving a glowing description
of their Thanksgiving & I think they had a rich time
of it & I would gladly have been in P. that day
myself. Sam & I thought of & spoke about you all
often & as often wished ourselves with you but
our wishing seemed to do no good & we finally
came to the conclusion that we ought to be thank-
ful that our situations were no worse & that we
might consider ourselves lucky if we were permitted
to spend our Thanksgiving in 1853 at home with our
friends. I do not know as I can write you much
news as I do not know of any of any consequence.

Mr. John Griffin arrived here about a month since
from Pepperell but could give us but a little of the P. news
as he had not been living at home for 3 or 4 years.

He seems to like the country very well thus far.

Mr. Shipley & all of the P. folks remain about as usual
of which there are now about a dozen in this county
but we hear but little of those who are in the country.

Hope however they are all doing well as I should
not wish to have any of them return home any worse
off than they were when they left as I think that the
majority of the Pepperell citizens have enough to do to take