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to Esq J. I shall send home for no more mony [money]
after he pays the $500. to Mr Turnbull, unless I should
have to send for some to get home with.

All is if I lose what I have recieved [received] from home I shall
only have to remain here a few years longer & work a
little harder than I should otherwise do in order to make
it up again & if occasion requires I can try my luck at the mines

I think as you say that you had a variety of marrying
during the second week of January & they must have had
terrible times for a while at Recest. I should have thought
that Frank Joy would have gone in for a chanc [chance] as perhaps
he could have got the knot tied cheap as the priests had
just nicely got their hand in & probably they would
have married him at wholesale price but I guess he
will give it up after all. It seems that at last you
you have got a plenty of snow & in piles too & I sup-
pose before now you have had still more accompanied
by a good share of cold weather & winds, while we
here have been having beautiful weather with the
exception of yesterday & day before, when it rained
about half of the time -- today however it has been
clear, warm & pleasant throughout the day like your
weather in May. After all it does not seem half so
pleasant to walk about here as one can see no trees
grass, or flowers, as they can in the New England States
during the months of Spring & Summer

I suppose Harriet is as anxious to attend school as
ever notwithstanding the cold & snow, but she must
be careful of her health, although she haves [has] the best of