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some Scissors for Mrs. Douglass and a little remembrance for dear Rosetta. Give my love to her. I feel sure she has not quite forgotten me. Miss Carpenter starts in about a week for India. I think she means to settle there altogether. And she still looks forward to my joining her. The Sturges and Albrights have Again offered me a home, and the superintendence of their daughters' education. Unfortunately I had just engaged to to into Suffolk, when the offer came. I should have preferred going to them