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to see her before many days & give your letter to her. She will be glad to hear from you. We both hope to have a visit from you in the Spring. The colored boys whom I have been teaching for a year print, gave me an elegant Album, at Christmas time I was entirely unexpected but greatly appreciated. I will put thine likeness in the first pages after which I propose to grace the remai- ning pages with the likeness of the dear old times [illegible] [tourists?] - our best men & women. And now may I ask for thine and thy husbands? I should prize them very highly. I am very anxious to get James and Lucretias Motts. Are they offered for sale? Perhaps Esther will know.