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Post, Amy Kirby. Letter to Esther Titus.

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I have called to see Mrs Van Zant several times she once called here. I understand she is now in Buffalo to see what she can find to do, I [pitty?] her, Oh how sad that she should have consented to sell her home, but it is not wise to spend much time in [illegible] regrets about such things, she is smart to get along, if she only had health.
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I have called to see Mrs Van Zant several times she once called here. I understand she is now in Buffalo to see what she can find to do, I pitty her, Oh how sad that she should have consented to sell her home, but it is not wise to spend much time in useless regrets about such things, she is smart to get along, if she only had health.
 
Mary Post said in a letter lately received that they had lately had a letter from Lucretia Mott in which she said, that they were having a visit from Catharine E Beecher, and that she was boarding with Ann Preston in order to acquaint herself with Friends and religious and domestic educational of their children, She is interested in forming an institution for the education of girls and young women in housekeeping and the proper care of children. There are five or six Hartford Women joining her in the undertaking. She said Rachel Jackson and several others had had her at their houses, with a party of congenial minds. I should like to know how she
 
Mary Post said in a letter lately received that they had lately had a letter from Lucretia Mott in which she said, that they were having a visit from Catharine E Beecher, and that she was boarding with Ann Preston in order to acquaint herself with Friends and religious and domestic educational of their children, She is interested in forming an institution for the education of girls and young women in housekeeping and the proper care of children. There are five or six Hartford Women joining her in the undertaking. She said Rachel Jackson and several others had had her at their houses, with a party of congenial minds. I should like to know how she

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I have called to see Mrs Van Zant several times she once called here. I understand she is now in Buffalo to see what she can find to do, I pitty her, Oh how sad that she should have consented to sell her home, but it is not wise to spend much time in useless regrets about such things, she is smart to get along, if she only had health. Mary Post said in a letter lately received that they had lately had a letter from Lucretia Mott in which she said, that they were having a visit from Catharine E Beecher, and that she was boarding with Ann Preston in order to acquaint herself with Friends and religious and domestic educational of their children, She is interested in forming an institution for the education of girls and young women in housekeeping and the proper care of children. There are five or six Hartford Women joining her in the undertaking. She said Rachel Jackson and several others had had her at their houses, with a party of congenial minds. I should like to know how she