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on my voyage out here. I was somewhat surprised
to hear that Friend Sarah J. H. hopped off so sud-
den at last but after all if she was bound to
get married perhaps the sooner she done so
the better & have it done with. The newly mar-
ried couple have my best wishes for their future
welfare & happiness. Suppose that Henry Loring &
Miss Francis Tarbell also Mr Phelps & Miss Therise
J. Wright are now married as Miss Lizzie Lewis
wrote me that they were calculating on being
married about New Years Hope they all fell [feel] better

I had heard of the destruction by fire of Chichering
Piano Forte establishment previous to your writing

Saw an account of it in the Boston Journal
which I received the 5th inst It was truly a
sad affair, & I was very sorry to hear that the Piano
which you had engaged for Harriet was burned
but hope you will succeed in obtaining her another
one soon. I am thinking that you mean she shall
have a pretty nice one when she haves any, an idea
which I like myself for if she can't have a good
one she might about as well have none. I suppose
she felt somewhat disappointed when she first heard
the report of the fire but as you say she must learn
with the rest of us "to take things as they come"

S. P. T. [Samuel P. Tucker] continues to enjoy good health & is now wri-
ting letters home John Griffin has now been out here
about two months. He has got a room in the same
building with us & we have some quite social times