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Post, Mary Robbins. Letter to Isaac Post.
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spoke of 3 or 4 men after a few months instinction were
fitted and amply qualified to take charge of several perhap
2 or 3 hundred acres aprice and were going on in a very
satisfactory manner Last spring it was thought that to
send teachers was the greatest need and accordingly
schools were commenced [illegible] there are many ^more^ who want
to got to school and we have been trying for some time to raise sufficient to send 2 teachers ^from W???^ one from ??? which will be 3 I believe we shall do this in addition to our sewing which a few of us are earnestly engaged in. about the first of the year we sent a very large box 250 garments and have ??? collection ready to go soon ??? and self bought goods recently amounting to 268 shall probably send a part of them without making I have been cutting and making all day yesterday was our sewing day we generally have from 8 to 15 who ^sew^ seldom the last ??? I think it strange so few co e it is a hoy many way I rejoice ever that we can lay aside our own ??? writing in the pleasant duty however diversified in thought on other matters The subject has been discussed at the close of 3 ??? the ??? friends ^are^doing something towards clothing ??? But there are many among us who ^very few except our ???^ do not and in the ??? work but enough of this You ??? about Ann Titus the heal is now put off tile next month Isaac does not know what I would have William do with her I constantly think when there is so much evidence of the need of restraint as there is in her case it is the husbands duty to place her in a position where she can be cared for and presented from spending I might say ??? the earnings which may all be needed
at the top upside down: Amys act of the trial ??? ??? interesting to us as I had often wondered how N had resulted she need not fear being too ???
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