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Glad your house is going on prosperously
you will know how to appreciate the comforts
of a roomy house – There is no great satisfaction
in a sick mans building. The money is paid
and the thing is done but with us, in the
middle walks of property, there is something
more than a mere purchase, when we build
we have the satisfaction of having achieved
a real triumph over difficulties and
we can look upon the final consumation
of our long anticipated undertaking with
pride as well as pleasure – I hope sometime
to visit you in Your Den

I have collected a quite numerous family
of Beetles and Moths during the past season
but as yet have had no time to set them up
or otherwise arrange them -

I will send you a list of what Eggs
you have that I have not - and where
you can spare me one - of each please do so –
I have a great number which you have not
and will exchange of course – just keep such
as you may have of the following - until