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Gowanda[circled] Aug 9. 1853 Dear Bob, I have been trying to write to you for a long time it is not hard for me to write a letter after I can get into it but getting into it is the thing I am into it now at this late day but I will try and get into it earlyer next time you will say that this is the old story I admit it is and I am affraid that it will be so next time but I will try and think about it in better season next time. Mother received a letter from Cousin Belle last friday dated Aug 1. it was written soon after their arrival ^{in New York} the wer well and happly they will probably be here the last of this week or the first of next I think that I shall like Belle from her letter it is a straight forward nice letter and written good I am very impatient to see them all I wish that you and Charlie could be here we would have some times then and no mistake. I am still in the store and wish to God that I could get out of it I mean to go to school sometime but when and

where I have not the least idea but I wish that it might be somewhere and soon. Sunday I had ripe Peaches Pears and Apples at Mrs Gurney in Collins and I also had lots of fun Laura + I started saturday afternoon and got home sunday night about 11. [illegible] Heill wife and child are here thier child was taken with the measels the next day after thier arrival it makes it very unplesant for them as well as us. his wife is a nice sort of woman woman but childish and notional she was found not to have anything done for the child but she continualy bathed it in cold water and would let nothing else be done the Doctor and [illegible] concluded that something must be done and she had to give up but she hated to the child is recovering fast now. Poor old Aunt [illegible] is well and I trust happy she is a good old woman if there ever was one Betsey Anne is well as is [illegible] folks Bill Humphrey is on his trips as usual he is a first rate singer voice rather to heavy but good for a base there is eight or ten boys here who are all singers they meet every night and sing

on nearly every night and have busting times they sing all kinds of songs religious as well as the rest some which are certainly beautiful Lilly Dale Katey Darling ye and [illegible] of thier