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attending school, assisting you &c so that I could not
reasonably expect them to write me at that time, but
I hope that they will write as soon as they can conveniently do
so, for I should be glad to hear from them at any time

As you did not write anything about Hattie's Music
I concluded she had not yet got her Piano & was not
taking music lessons at present. Tell her to write me
if she can by next mail & tell me all about her studies
&c. I saw T. P. Tucker at San Francisco last Saturday. He
was comfortably well, enough so to be about & that was all --
do not think he seems to gain much if any of late & I
think he would be better off at home than here for
there he would recieve [receive] good care & I think soon recover

Sometimes he will be very well for two or three days
the very next perhaps, he will have a chill & be obliged
to go to bed & be troubled with the headache & chills for
a day or two, so that he is able to do but very little work.

For aught I know the rest of the Pepperell boys are all
well. I have not heard from Henry Leighton since he
went up country to find his father, I understand that
his mother felt very bad about his coming to this country &
tried to persuade him from doing so, but without avail.

She will no doubt be pleased to hear that he arrived
here safely. Nothing has yet been heard from the Steamship
Independence which I wrote you by last mail was sup-
posed to be lost together with all on board & it was
fortunate for Henry L. that he was not a passenger on this
ill-fated Steamer but it is hoped that she will yet make
her appearance & that all those who took passage on her are still living