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Rh twice a child," and how fully it has been verified in my own case. When I first left home, and for many, very many years thereafter, nothing gave me so much real pleasure and enjoyment as to visit Home; but after becoming immersed in business this Home feeling gradually died out, and for a long time I felt very little interest in the scenes of my boyhood. But now this Home feeling is returning stronger and stronger every year, and for the present and sometime past nothing gives me more real pleasure than to visit Home, which I now call "Clover Hill."

I have received several letters from you since I last wrote, and I assure you they have given me a great deal of pleasure; the first letter opened when I receive my mail is the one with the "Oxford Valley P.O." stamp, should there fortunately be one such.

Write whenever you have time, and do not wait for me, as my time is so fully occupied that I have very little time for anything but business. I would like to receive a letter from you every week.

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Philada., Mch. 16, 1877.

My Dear Anna Mary:—

What's in a name? They say "A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet." I was forcibly reminded of this a few days since when called upon to sign a petition to the North Penna. R.R. authorities to establish a Station at "Glen Lake." I was not in the office when the party called; he left the Paper, and when I signed it I said to Clinton that I had never heard of a Lake in that