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to appear like home. Was glad to hear that Cousin Almira was coming
out to spend the winter with you. Yes Father, notwithstanding I felt
rather homesick on my first arrival here, yet I slept as well as could
be expected that night after thou left us and was ready on the
ensuing morning to commence my studies with as much avid-
ity as could be expected after having been so long out of the prac-
tice. Have not had but one real homesick fit and that was
one week from the night that Father left us felt then as
if I were taking leave of him again, in fact the tears have
come into my eyes while I have been writing the last sentence
but do not suppose I carry a gloomy countenance all the
time, far be it from that, yet oft do I think seriously of home
and the endearing ties which bind us together. Father we
will look at the sentiments, not the orthography and grammar
of thy letters in which I did discover some errors. I have become
somewhat initiated so much so that Deborah says she for-
gets that I am a new scholar. I have been through with
Colburns meltal within arithmetick. [The first lessons.]

Guelma joins with me in love to all.

I or rather we remain your Daughters

S. B. Anthony

Dear Sisters.

1st day 17th. Here I am in Hamilton enjoying myself much
better than I anticipated before leaving that dear ines-
timable spot called home in Battenville, but what would
that place be to me were those friends, [whom? ?? ] prize above
all earthly beings) removed to some other [part of??] the land;
no more than is Hamilton nor so much, for surely the exten
ded plains and would be beutiful groves (were it not for
the decay of nature) of this more salubrious clime, far surpass
the hills and uncouth rocks of our dear native land, where
the chilling blasts of the arctic regions, are more severely
felt. Guelma with many of the scholars have gone to meet
ing, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. Thought I