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There are three colored girls around here who had been in the habit of attending friends meeting, but here they could not have the privilege, even if they sit on the the back seat, and so set against it were they that one long faced elder walked up [the] galley and dusted a set for them to sit on. These girls are wealthy. Their father was a slave, but the heart of his master becoming softened he was freed, and the sum of 60,000 dollars left him by his master. Samuel Browne, the friend who has had the kindness to carry us to meeting, is their guardian. He is now trying to find a school to place them in, but as yet has not succeeded in finding one with which he is satisfied. If I were proprietor of a school I know where they would be admitted without hesitation on X. I am going to send some circulars, and wish one of them forwarded, to X X, if thou will be so kind. L. Mott was spoken to, to teach school for A. Merritt, in Saratoga, and if she concludes to, she will return in about two months and I should not be in the least suprised if she did, as it is said, her father is in rather X circumstances.

I have a letter written to X X X X. I have given him a real lecturing for drinking cider and ale while in New York, even Aunt Hannah partook of it, tinctured a little, with water. To be sure the water was very poor, but I got along through the week very comfortably, by drinking tea and coffee, nights and morning. They buy water for dinner, quite X but warm, which does not come around until about the middle of the fore X. I now drink cold water notwithstanding it is rather brackish. If you have any children in your country to send to school forward them and we will be ready to receive them. Tell Nancy not to